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Budget Hosting Plans for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are two things you demand in order to have a web page. The first one is a domain name that will open your online portal when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a web hosting plan, which is principally the hard disk storage space on a web server where the website files will be located, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting plan are two related, yet different services, and you demand them both in order to have a running web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination 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 sixty four characters long and it involves two 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, and .com is the TLD. While you can choose the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a set number of Top-Level Domains to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular stretch of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may entail other prerequisites with regard to the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting account where you have to add it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will exhibit the web site files that you have in the account, i.e. it will show your website. You can have a domain name registered with a given registrar and get the hosting service from another, although lots of hosts provide both solutions and it is more user-friendly to handle all services from one web hosting CP interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name server records. Each host has at least two name servers - ns1.tmcaribbean.com and ns2.tmcaribbean.com, for example. The web hosting CP that you use for your domain name offers you the chance to modify the name servers and point the domain to one web host or another.

The Demand for Trustworthy Website Hosting Solutions

Once the domain is pointed to a specific domain hosting service provider and is added to their hosting servers, you will receive a number of services. The most vital one is that the web site files that you host on the server will now be exhibited when you type your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to establish email addresses such as name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or a mail user agent to administer them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate site, being available online and being able to create e-mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most important options that you obtain with a website hosting plan. If you own a corporate online portal – it will single out your business before your website visitors or customers. This is why you demand a trustworthy web hosting supplier that will supply a fast and stable hosting service.

Stable website hosting Services Courtesy of 'Tehilla Media'

Other web services that you get by hosting a domain name with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the ability to set up and configure given domain records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.