Affordable Web Hosting Solutions for Your Domain Names

There are two things you need so as to open an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your web page when you write it in a browser, and the second one is a website hosting plan, which is basically the disk space on a server where the web page files will be located, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting package are two related, yet separate services, and you require both of them to have an operational site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will choose to be the web address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it includes 2 pieces – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the TLD. While you can select the SLD of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a certain number of TLDs to choose from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain interval of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may contain more prerequisites when it comes to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to accommodate it. In this way, when you type it in a web browser, it will show the website files that you have in the account, in other words it will open your online portal. You can have a domain registered with one registrar and receive the hosting service from another, even though lots of hosting distributors offer both services and it is more user-friendly to handle everything from a single web hosting CP GUI. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to alter a particular setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called NS records. Each hosting provider has at least two nameservers - ns1.www.et-host.com and ns2.www.et-host.com, for example. The web hosting Control Panel that you utilize for your domain offers you the possibility to alter the name servers and point the domain to one company or another.

The Need of Dependable web hosting Services

As soon as the domain is pointed to a particular domain hosting distributor and is added to their servers, you will receive several online services. The most vital one is that the site files that you keep on the web hosting server will now be displayed when you type your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to establish mail accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you run a personal or a business web site, being online and being enabled to use email box accounts with your domain name are the two most essential options that you get with a web hosting account. In case you run a corporate website – it will represent your business before your visitors or customers. This is why you need a dependable hosting vendor that will offer a dependable and steady web hosting service.

Dependable Web Hosting Services by 'East Texas Web Hosting'

Additional services that you obtain by hosting a domain name with us include: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and modify specific domain name records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.