Modestly Priced Web Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names

There are two items you require in order to kick off a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your site when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a website hosting plan, which is fundamentally the data storage space on a hosting server where the web site files will be situated, plus several more features that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting account are two linked, yet separate solutions, and you demand them both in order to have a functioning site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will select to be the web address for the web site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 symbols long and it is composed of two parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the SLD of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a finite number of TLDs to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed interval of time between 1 and ten years. They may entail additional requirements with respect to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to include it. Thus, when you type it in a web browser, it will display the site files that you host in the account, in other words it will open your web site. You can have a domain name registered with a given provider and get the hosting service from another, although lots of hosting companies offer both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage everything from the same web hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the website hosting account are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to alter a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name server records. Each hosting company has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.bluegrapehost.com and ns2.bluegrapehost.com, for example. The web hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain offers you the option to change the name server records and point the domain name to one provider or another.

The Need of Dependable web hosting Services

The moment the domain is pointed to a particular domain hosting provider and is added to their servers, you will get a number of online services. The most vital one is that the web site files that you host on the web hosting server will now be exhibited when you write your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to set up e-mail boxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an email client to handle them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web portal, being available online and being allowed to create electronic mail accounts with your domain name are the two most significant options that you get with a website hosting plan. In case you administer a corporate web page – it will identify your business before your web page visitors or clients. For that reason you need a reliable web hosting company that will deliver a fast and steady website hosting service.

Stable Website Hosting Solutions by 'Blue Grape Hosting'

Additional online services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the ability to create and configure specific domain records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.