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Cut-Price Hosting Solutions for Your Top-Level Domains

There are two items you need so as to run a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your web site when you write it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting account, which is inherently the storage space on a web server where the site files will be placed, plus several more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting plan are two related, yet separate services, and you need both of them in order to have an operational web page.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it is composed of two entities – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that is open for registration, there is a fixed number of TLDs to choose from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given interval of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may include more requirements with respect to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting plan where you have to host it. In such a way, when you type it in a web browser, it will exhibit the content that you have in the account, in other words it will display your site. You can have a domain registered with a certain provider and get the hosting service from another, although a lot of web hosts offer both services and it is more convenient to handle all services from one and the same web hosting Control Panel tool. 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 change a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each web host has at least two name servers - ns1.st8forward.com and ns2.st8forward.com, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name gives you the chance to alter the NS records and point the domain name to one web hosting supplier or another.

The Necessity for Dependable website hosting Solutions

The moment the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting distributor and is added to their servers, you will obtain a number of online services. The most vital one is that the website files that you host on the server will now be accessible when you write your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to create mailboxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you administer a personal or a business web page, being online and being able to set up e-mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most pivotal options that come with a hosting package. If you own a corporate online portal – it will represent your business before your web page visitors or customers. That is the reason why you demand a dependable service provider that will offer a fast and stable web hosting service.

Reliable Web Hosting Services by 'St8forward Hosting'

Extra services that you get by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and modify certain domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.