Cheap Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names

There are two entities you require so as to start an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your web portal when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting plan, which is principally the disk space on a hosting server where the site files will be placed, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting account are two related, yet different solutions, and you require both of them to have an operational site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is made of 2 parts – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the TLD. While you can choose the SLD of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a finite number of TLDs to select from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given period of time between one and 10 yrs. They may have other preconditions concerning the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting plan where you have to include it. In this way, when you write it in a browser, it will display the website files that you host in the account, i.e. it will display your web portal. You can have a domain registered with a specific registrar and obtain the hosting service from another, even though lots of hosting corporations provide both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage all services from one single web hosting CP tool. Either way, since the domain registration and the website hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you have to modify a specific setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name servers. Each web hosting provider has at least two name servers - ns1.hosting.socialstream-me.com and ns2.hosting.socialstream-me.com, for example. The website hosting CP that you have for your domain gives you the chance to alter the NS records and point the domain to one company or another.

The Need of Reliable website hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a concrete domain hosting firm and is added to their hosting servers, you will receive various online services. The most vital one is that the web page files that you accommodate on the web server will now be accessible when you type your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to set up email box accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to administer them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate web page, being available online and being allowed to create electronic mail accounts with your domain name are the two most pivotal things that you receive with a website hosting package. In case you host a business online portal – it will represent your business before your website visitors or clients. This is why you need a reliable company that will furnish a reliable and steady web hosting service.

Reliable web hosting Solutions by 'Social Stream ME'

Additional online services that you receive by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the ability to create and edit specific domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.