Modestly Priced Hosting Services for Your Top-Level Domain Names
There are 2 entities you demand so as to set up a website. The first one is a domain name that will open your online portal when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting account, which is essentially the data storage space on a web server where the website files will be situated, plus several more services that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting package are two associated, yet separate services, and you demand them both to have a working web site.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it is made of 2 entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can choose the SLD of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a finite number of top-level domain names to choose from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed spell of time between one and 10 years. They may have more prerequisites regarding the registrant.
Domain Name Hosting Services
As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting plan where you have to accommodate it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will open the site files that you have in the account, in other words it will open your website. You can have a domain registered with a given registrar and receive the hosting service from another, even though numerous hosting providers offer both solutions and it is more user-friendly to handle everything from a single web hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to change a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name servers. Each web hosting supplier has at least two nameservers - ns1.incorpmediahosting.com and ns2.incorpmediahosting.com, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain name gives you the possibility to change the nameservers and point the domain name to one provider or another.
The Necessity for Dependable website hosting Solutions
Once the domain name is pointed to a given domain hosting supplier and is added to their hosting servers, you will get several online services. The most vital one is that the web site files that you host on the web server will now be displayed when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish mail accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an email client to handle them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web page, being available online and being allowed to set up mail accounts with your domain are the two most essential things that you obtain with a web hosting package. In case you have a corporate online portal – it will represent your business before your visitors or customers. That's why you need a dependable hosting service provider that will deliver a dependable and stable web hosting service.
Reliable Web Hosting Solutions by 'Incorpmedia Hosting'
Other web services that you obtain by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the option to create and configure certain domain records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.