Cut-Price Hosting Plans for Your Domains

There are 2 entities you require in order to establish a web page. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web page when you type it in a web browser, and the other one is a website hosting plan, which is essentially the disk space on a web server where the web site files will be situated, plus several more features that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting package are two related, yet separate solutions, and you require them both in order to have a running web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it consists of 2 pieces – 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, and .com is the TLD. While you can select the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that is open for registration, there is a finite number of TLDs to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given period of time between 1 and 10 years. They may entail more preconditions regarding the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a hosting package where you have to accommodate it. In this way, when you type it in a browser, it will exhibit the web page files that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your online portal. You can have a domain name registered with one provider and obtain the hosting service from another, even though many web hosting distributors offer both services and it is more convenient to administer everything from one and the same web hosting Control Panel user interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the website hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to alter a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called NS records. Each web host has at least two nameservers - ns1.hostpapaya.com and ns2.hostpapaya.com, for example. The web hosting CP that you use for your domain name gives you the option to change the NS records and point the domain to one web hosting vendor or another.

The Demand for Trustworthy Hosting Services

Once the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting corporation and is added to their servers, you will get a number of services. The most essential one is that the web page files that you accommodate on the hosting server will now be exhibited when you write your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to create email box accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or an e-mail client to tackle them. Whether you administer a personal or a business web portal, being accessible online and being enabled to use email mailboxes with your domain name are the two most important options that you get with a web hosting package. In case you run a business website – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or clients. This is the reason why you need a reliable web hosting provider that will supply a reliable and stable hosting service.

Stable Website Hosting Solutions by 'HostPapaya'

Other web 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 mailing lists, and the ability to create and modify given domain name records from your Hepsia Control Panel.