Cheap Web Hosting Packages for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are two things you need in order to host a web page. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web page when you write it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting account, which is essentially the disk storage space on a web hosting server where the site files will be located, plus several more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting account are 2 related, yet different solutions, and you demand both of them in order to have a functioning online portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is composed of 2 parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned example, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a certain number of top-level domain names to choose from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed period of time between one and 10 years. They may entail more stipulations about the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a website hosting package where you have to include it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will exhibit the site files that you host in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your online portal. You can have a domain registered with one company and receive the hosting service from another, although numerous web hosting providers offer both solutions and it is more time-saving to handle everything from a single hosting CP interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to change a particular setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name servers. Each hosting vendor has at least two nameservers - ns1.idocky.com and ns2.idocky.com, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain offers you the chance to change the name servers and point the domain to one provider or another.

The Demand for Reliable web hosting Services

The moment the domain is pointed to a certain domain hosting vendor and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive a number of online services. The most important one is that the site files that you have on the hosting server will now be exhibited when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish emails like name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an email client to administer them. Whether you host a personal or a corporate web site, being accessible online and being allowed to use e-mail address accounts with your domain name are the two most fundamental options that you obtain with a website hosting account. If you have a business online portal – it will identify your business before your website visitors or customers. That's why you need a dependable service provider that will supply a fast and steady web hosting solution.

Stable website hosting Services by 'iDockY Hosting'

Other services that you get by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and configure certain domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.