Inexpensive Hosting Solutions for Your Domain Names

There are 2 features you require in order to have a web site. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your website when you write it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting account, which is essentially the hard disk space on a web hosting server where the site files will be located, plus several more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 associated, yet separate solutions, and you need both of them in order to have a running website.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the web address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it includes two parts – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the SLD of the domain to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a fixed number of top-level domain names to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed period of time between one and ten yrs. They may contain other prerequisites concerning the registrant.

Domain Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting plan where you have to add it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will show the web content that you host in the account, in other words it will open your web site. You can have a domain registered with a particular registrar and get the hosting service from another, even though numerous web hosting suppliers provide both solutions and it is more convenient to administer everything from one single hosting Control Panel user interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain to the server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to change a given setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named NS records. Each hosting supplier has at least 2 name servers - ns1.simmetrypcs.net and ns2.simmetrypcs.net, for instance. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the chance to change the NS records and point the domain to one hosting supplier or another.

The Necessity for Stable Web Hosting Services

Once the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting service provider and is added to their servers, you will obtain several services. The most vital one is that the website files that you host on the hosting server will now be shown when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to set up mail address accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to manage them. Whether you manage a personal or a business site, being available online and being enabled to create email accounts with your domain are the two most essential things that come with a web hosting plan. In case you administer a business web site – it will identify your business before your visitors or customers. Therefore you require a stable hosting provider that will offer a reliable and steady web hosting service.

Stable Web Hosting Solutions by 'Simmetry Communications'

Extra services that you receive by hosting a domain name with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to set up and edit specific domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.