Cheap Hosting Packages for Your Domain Names

There are two items you need in order to own a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will display your web portal when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting plan, which is principally the disk storage space on a web server where the web site files will be located, plus a few more features that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet different solutions, and you need them both so as to have a working online portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will choose to be the web address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it consists of two components – 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 top-level domain name. While you can choose the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a finite number of TLDs to choose from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular spell of time between 1 and 10 years. They may contain other requirements with respect to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting account where you have to host it. Thus, when you type it in a browser, it will open the web content that you host in the account, in other words it will exhibit your site. You can have a domain registered with a specific registrar and get the hosting service from another, although a lot of hosting vendors offer both services and it is more time-saving to handle everything from a single web hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the website hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you need to modify a particular setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name server records. Each web hosting provider has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.hostpapaya.com and ns2.hostpapaya.com, for example. The hosting Control Panel that you utilize for your domain gives you the opportunity to alter the NS records and point the domain to one web hosting company or another.

The Demand for Reliable website hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain is pointed to a particular domain hosting provider and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive several services. The most crucial one is that the website files that you keep on the hosting server will now be shown when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to create mail accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail client to tackle them. Whether you host a personal or a corporate web portal, being online and being able to use mails with your domain are the two most pivotal options that you get with a website hosting account. In case you run a business website – it will single out your business before your visitors or clients. That's why you need a trustworthy web host that will deliver a dependable and steady web hosting solution.

Trustworthy Hosting Solutions by 'HostPapaya'

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