Budget Web Hosting Solutions for Your Domains

There are two features you need so as to establish a web page. 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 web hosting account, which is basically the hard disk storage space on a server where the web site files will be situated, plus a few more features that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting account are two related, yet different services, and you require them both in order to have a functioning web portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the web address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it consists of 2 components – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can choose the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that is open for registration, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to select from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given spell of time between one and 10 yrs. They may have additional specifications in regard to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting package where you have to add it. In this way, when you type it in a web browser, it will show the files that you have in the account, i.e. it will display your web site. You can have a domain name registered with a particular provider and receive the hosting service from another, even though a lot of providers offer both services and it is more user-friendly to manage all services from a single website hosting CP interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named nameservers. Each web hosting service provider has at least two name servers - ns1.host.megatech-web.com and ns2.host.megatech-web.com, for example. The website hosting CP that you have for your domain offers you the possibility to alter the name server records and point the domain to one web hosting service provider or another.

The Need of Trustworthy web hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a given domain hosting corporation and is added to their hosting servers, you will obtain a number of web services. The most vital one is that the web site files that you keep on the server will now be accessible when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish email mailbox accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or an email client to administer them. Whether you manage a personal or a business site, being available online and being allowed to set up email accounts with your domain are the two most important things that you obtain with a web hosting account. If you manage a corporate web portal – it will identify your business before your visitors or clients. For this reason you need a dependable provider that will provide a fast and steady web hosting service.

Reliable Hosting Services by 'MEGAHOST'

Additional services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to create and edit certain domain name records from your Hepsia Control Panel.