Cheap Hosting Packages for Your Domains

There are 2 entities you require in order to own a site. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web portal when you type it in a web browser, and the other one is a website hosting plan, which is primarily the hard disk space on a web server where the web site files will be placed, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting plan are two similar, yet different services, and you need them both in order to have a running web page.

What is a Domain Name?

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 instance. A domain name can be up to 64 symbols long and it is composed of two constituents – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a fixed number of TLDs to choose from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed span of time between one and ten years. They may involve other stipulations in regard to the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting plan where you have to host it. In this way, when you write it in a web browser, it will show the web site files that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your online portal. You can have a domain registered with a particular company and obtain the hosting service from another, although numerous hosting providers offer both services and it is more time-saving to manage everything from one single web hosting CP tool. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you need to modify a particular setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called nameservers. Each service provider has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.hmahost.com and ns2.hmahost.com, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain offers you the possibility to alter the name servers and point the domain to one hosting distributor or another.

The Need of Reliable Website Hosting Solutions

The moment the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting supplier and is added to their web servers, you will receive several online services. The most important one is that the site files that you have on the server will now be accessible when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to create e-mailbox accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or an email client to manage them. Whether you own a personal or a business website, being accessible online and being enabled to use email mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most significant options that you get with a web hosting account. If you own a business site – it will represent your business before your website visitors or customers. That's why you need a trustworthy hosting service provider that will provide a dependable and steady web hosting solution.

Trustworthy web hosting Solutions by 'HMAHost'

Additional services that you get by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the option to set up and modify certain domain name records from your Hepsia CP.