Cheap Hosting Solutions for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are two things you need so as to start a site. The first one is a domain name that will show your site when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a hosting plan, which is basically the disk storage space on a web hosting server where the web page files will be placed, plus a few more features that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet different solutions, and you need them both in order to have a working online portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it is made of 2 constituents – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can select the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a set number of top-level domain names to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed spell of time between 1 and ten years. They may involve other requirements with respect to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a website hosting package where you have to add it. In this way, when you type it in a browser, it will display the web page files that you have in the account, i.e. it will open your online portal. You can have a domain name registered with a given company and obtain the hosting service from another, even though lots of web hosting service providers offer both services and it is more time-saving to administer all services from one single web hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to alter a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named NS records. Each web host has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.skydragonhosting.com and ns2.skydragonhosting.com, for instance. The web hosting CP that you use for your domain name offers you the chance to modify the name servers and point the domain to one hosting distributor or another.

The Necessity for Trustworthy web hosting Services

The moment the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting vendor and is added to their web servers, you will receive several services. The most crucial one is that the site files that you host on the web server will now be exhibited when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to create electronic mail accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an email client to tackle them. Whether you host a personal or a corporate web portal, being accessible online and being allowed to use mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most fundamental things that you receive with a web hosting plan. If you run a corporate web site – it will single out your business before your website visitors or customers. Therefore you need a dependable service provider that will provide a reliable and steady website hosting solution.

Stable web hosting Services by 'Sky Dragon Hosting'

Extra services that you receive by hosting a domain with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and configure certain domain records from your Hepsia Control Panel.