Affordable Web Hosting Packages for Your Domain Names
There are two features you require so as to start a site. The first one is a domain name that will show your web site when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting account, which is basically the hard disk storage space on a server where the website files will be situated, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting account are 2 interconnected, yet separate services, and you need them both to have a running web portal.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 symbols long and it contains 2 entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the abovementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a finite number of Top-Level Domains 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 one and 10 yrs. They may include additional stipulations about the registrant.
Domain Name Web Hosting Services
As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting package where you have to accommodate it. In such a way, when you write it in a browser, it will exhibit the web content that you host in the account, in other words it will exhibit your web page. You can have a domain registered with a given provider and obtain the hosting service from another, even though many service providers provide both services and it is more convenient to handle everything from the same website hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you need to change a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name server records. Each web hosting corporation has at least two nameservers - ns1.webhosting.maxima.com.ng and ns2.webhosting.maxima.com.ng, for example. The Control Panel that you use for your domain name offers you the opportunity to modify the NS records and point the domain to one web hosting firm or another.
The Necessity for Stable web hosting Solutions
Once the domain is pointed to a particular domain hosting distributor and is added to their web servers, you will receive a number of web services. The most crucial one is that the web page files that you keep on the web hosting server will now be exhibited when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish email mailboxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an e-mail client to tackle them. Whether you manage a personal or a corporate web portal, being available online and being permitted to set up email addresses with your domain are the two most important options that you get with a web hosting account. If you manage a business web portal – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or clients. Therefore you require a dependable hosting service provider that will offer a reliable and stable website hosting service.
Dependable website hosting Services Courtesy of 'Maxima Host'
Extra online services that you get by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to create and configure given domain name records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.