Cut-Price Web Hosting Services for Your Top-Level Domains

There are 2 features you demand in order to open a web site. The first one is a domain name that will display your web portal when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting account, which is primarily the disk storage space on a web server where the site files will be located, plus a few more features that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting account are 2 associated, yet separate services, and you need both of them to have a functioning site.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will choose to be the web address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it comprises 2 components – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can pick the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a fixed number of TLDs to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular spell of time between one and 10 years. They may entail more prerequisites with respect to the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting package where you have to include it. In this way, when you write it in a web browser, it will exhibit the files that you have in the account, i.e. it will show your website. You can have a domain name registered with a given company and get the hosting service from another, even though numerous companies offer both services and it is more time-saving to administer all services from the same website hosting CP interface. Either way, because the domain name 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 do that, you need to alter a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name servers. Each web hosting company has at least two name servers - ns1.wighthosting.info and ns2.wighthosting.info, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain offers you the chance to alter the name server records and point the domain to one company or another.

The Necessity for Trustworthy website hosting Services

As soon as the domain is pointed to a given domain hosting distributor and is added to their servers, you will get different web services. The most essential one is that the site files that you have on the web server will now be exhibited when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish mail addresses such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail user agent to administer them. Whether you administer a personal or a business web site, being accessible online and being allowed to set up email mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most essential options that you obtain with a web hosting package. If you run a corporate site – it will represent your business before your web page visitors or customers. This is why you require a dependable company that will deliver a fast and stable website hosting solution.

Stable Website Hosting Solutions by 'Wight Hosting'

Extra web services that you get by hosting a domain name with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and modify certain domain name records from your Hepsia Control Panel.