Cheap Hosting Packages for Your Domain Names

There are two things you require in order to start a site. The first one is a domain name that will open your website when you write it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting account, which is primarily the disk space on a web hosting server where the website files will be located, plus a few more services that it is offering. The domain and the web hosting package are 2 related, yet different solutions, and you demand them both in order to have a functioning web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the web address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it is made of 2 components – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the above illustration, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can choose the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a certain number of top-level domain names to pick from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain stretch of time between 1 and 10 years. They may contain other requirements with regard to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting account where you have to accommodate it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will show the content that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your web page. You can have a domain registered with a specific registrar and receive the hosting service from another, even though many hosting providers offer both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage all services from one web hosting CP user interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting account are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to modify a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called NS records. Each hosting firm has at least two nameservers - ns1.iwindows.net and ns2.iwindows.net, for example. The website hosting CP that you have for your domain name gives you the possibility to change the name server records and point the domain name to one web hosting service provider or another.

The Necessity for Trustworthy website hosting Services

Once the domain name is pointed to a certain domain hosting company and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive several online services. The most essential one is that the website files that you keep on the web server will now be accessible when you type your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to establish email address accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an email client to tackle them. Whether you host a personal or a business website, being accessible online and being allowed to create e-mail boxes with your domain name are the two most fundamental options that you receive with a web hosting plan. In case you host a business web portal – it will single out your business before your visitors or customers. Therefore you require a dependable hosting service provider that will deliver a dependable and steady website hosting solution.

Stable web hosting Services Courtesy of 'Iwindows'

Other online services that you receive by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to create and configure specific domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.