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There are two entities you need in order to start an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your web page when you write it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is inherently the data storage space on a web server where the web page files will be located, plus a few more features that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting plan are 2 related, yet different solutions, and you demand them both to have a functioning website.
What is a Domain Name?
A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it consists of two parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned example, 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 is available for registration, there is a fixed number of TLDs to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed period of time between 1 and ten years. They may entail other prerequisites when it comes to the registrant.
Domain Hosting Services
As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting plan where you have to include it. In such a way, when you write it in a web browser, it will show the content that you have in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your website. You can have a domain registered with a certain provider and obtain the hosting service from another, although many hosting vendors provide both solutions and it is more user-friendly to handle everything from one single Control Panel GUI. Either way, since the domain name registration and the hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to modify a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name server records. Each service provider has at least two name servers - ns1.steerweb.com and ns2.steerweb.com, for example. The hosting CP that you use for your domain gives you the opportunity to change the name servers and point the domain name to one web hosting supplier or another.
The Necessity for Dependable web hosting Solutions
Once the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting company and is added to their hosting servers, you will obtain various online services. The most vital one is that the website files that you keep on the hosting server will now be available online when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish mail addresses like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to handle them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web portal, being accessible online and being enabled to set up email boxes with your domain are the two most significant things that you obtain with a website hosting account. If you host a business web portal – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or customers. For this reason you demand a stable web host that will deliver a dependable and stable website hosting solution.
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Additional web services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to create and configure specific domain records from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel.