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Low-Priced Web Hosting Packages for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are two entities you need in order to host an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your web site when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting plan, which is fundamentally the data storage space on a web server where the website files will be located, plus a few more features that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting plan are 2 associated, yet separate solutions, and you require both of them so as to have a working web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is composed of two pieces – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can select the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that is open for registration, there is a set 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 particular span of time between one and 10 years. They may have more prerequisites when it comes to the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a website hosting package where you have to add it. In such a way, when you type it in a web browser, it will display the website files that you have in the account, in other words it will display your web site. You can have a domain name registered with a particular company and obtain the hosting service from another, even though numerous hosting service providers offer both services and it is more time-saving to handle all services from one single Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named NS records. Each hosting service provider has at least two name servers - ns1.widemarsh.com and ns2.widemarsh.com, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you utilize for your domain name offers you the opportunity to alter the NS records and point the domain to one web hosting provider or another.

The Need of Trustworthy Web Hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a certain domain hosting supplier and is added to their web servers, you will get different services. The most vital one is that the site files that you host on the web hosting server will now be accessible when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish email boxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail client to manage them. Whether you run a personal or a corporate online portal, being accessible online and being able to set up e-mails with your domain are the two most important things that come with a web hosting plan. In case you manage a corporate web page – it will identify your business before your web page visitors or customers. That is why you require a stable web hosting corporation that will deliver a reliable and stable website hosting solution.

Reliable web hosting Services by 'WideMarsh.com'

Extra services that you get by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to create and configure given domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.