Modestly Priced Hosting Services for Your TLDs

There are 2 features you demand in order to open an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your website when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting plan, which is essentially the hard disk storage space on a hosting server where the web page files will be placed, plus a few more features that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting account are two connected, yet separate solutions, and you demand both of them to have an operational web portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the web address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 symbols long and it includes two entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can pick the SLD of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a certain number of top-level domain names to select from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given stretch of time between one and ten years. They may entail other prerequisites with respect to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting plan where you have to host it. In this way, when you type it in a browser, it will show the content that you host in the account, in other words it will show your web site. You can have a domain registered with a particular provider and obtain the hosting service from another, although a lot of hosting corporations provide both services and it is more time-saving to administer everything from a single web hosting Control Panel user interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to alter a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each hosting firm has at least 2 name servers - ns1.sichern.org and ns2.sichern.org, for instance. The website hosting CP that you utilize for your domain gives you the option to alter the nameservers and point the domain to one company or another.

The Necessity for Dependable web hosting Services

Once the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting provider and is added to their servers, you will obtain various online services. The most crucial one is that the website files that you host on the server will now be available online when you type your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to set up e-mailbox accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail user agent to manage them. Whether you run a personal or a business web page, being available online and being allowed to use mailbox accounts with your domain name are the two most important options that you obtain with a web hosting plan. In case you administer a corporate web site – it will represent your business before your web page visitors or clients. For this reason you need a stable web hosting company that will offer a fast and stable website hosting service.

Stable Hosting Solutions by 'Tropical Hosting'

Extra services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to set up and configure certain domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.