Cheap Hosting Packages for Your TLDs

There are 2 features you demand in order to set up a web page. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web page when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting account, which is principally the hard disk storage space on a hosting server where the web site files will be located, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 linked, yet separate solutions, and you require both of them so as to have a working web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will select to be the address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it contains two pieces – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can select the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a certain number of TLDs to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain stretch of time between one and ten yrs. They may include additional specifications with regard to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting package where you have to host it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will exhibit the files that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your online portal. You can have a domain registered with a certain company and obtain the hosting service from another, even though a lot of web hosting companies provide both services and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from the same web hosting CP tool. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you need to alter a particular setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each hosting corporation has at least two name servers - ns1.palmservers.com and ns2.palmservers.com, for instance. The web hosting CP that you utilize for your domain gives you the possibility to change the NS records and point the domain name to one web hosting supplier or another.

The Need of Stable Website Hosting Solutions

The moment the domain is pointed to a given domain hosting firm and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive a number of services. The most essential one is that the website files that you keep on the server will now be accessible when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to create e-mailbox accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or a mail user agent to administer them. Whether you administer a personal or a business web portal, being accessible online and being enabled to create email boxes with your domain name are the two most important things that you receive with a website hosting package. In case you administer a corporate web portal – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or customers. That is the reason why you demand a dependable hosting service provider that will deliver a reliable and stable website hosting service.

Trustworthy web hosting Solutions Courtesy of 'Palm Servers'

Other web services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and configure given domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.