Cheap Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names

There are two features you require in order to kick off a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will display your website when you type it in a web browser, and the other one is a website hosting account, which is essentially the disk storage space on a hosting server where the web page files will be placed, plus a few more services that it is offering. The domain and the web hosting package are 2 interconnected, yet separate services, and you need both of them so as to have an operational online portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it is made of two constituents – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the abovementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can choose the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a certain number of TLDs to pick from. The TLDs 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 impose more specifications in relation to the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to host it. Thus, when you type it in a browser, it will open the web content that you host in the account, in other words it will display your website. You can have a domain registered with a particular provider and receive the hosting service from another, although many web hosting service providers provide both services and it is more convenient to manage everything from a single CP GUI. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to alter a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each web hosting vendor has at least two nameservers - ns1.sites.ionlineyou.com and ns2.sites.ionlineyou.com, for example. The hosting Control Panel that you utilize for your domain name gives you the chance to change the NS records and point the domain to one hosting provider or another.

The Need of Stable Hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting service provider and is added to their servers, you will get several web services. The most vital one is that the website files that you keep on the web server will now be displayed when you type your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to create e-mail address accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail user agent to tackle them. Whether you administer a personal or a business site, being available online and being permitted to create e-mailboxes with your domain are the two most pivotal options that you get with a web hosting package. In case you host a business site – it will single out your business before your web page visitors or customers. For that reason you demand a trustworthy web hosting vendor that will deliver a dependable and steady web hosting solution.

Dependable web hosting Services by 'Ion Web Hosting'

Additional online services that you get by hosting a domain with us include: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and modify specific domain name records from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel.