Affordable Hosting Plans for Your Top-Level Domains

There are 2 things you require so as to open a site. The first one is a domain name that will display your web page when you write it in a web browser, and the other one is a web hosting account, which is principally the hard disk space on a web hosting server where the web page files will be situated, plus several more features that come with it. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 associated, yet different services, and you demand them both in order to have a functioning online portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it comprises 2 components – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned example, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can choose the SLD of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a finite number of TLDs to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular spell of time between one and ten years. They may involve other prerequisites with regard to the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting package where you have to include it. In this way, when you write it in a web browser, it will open the site files that you have in the account, i.e. it will display your web site. You can have a domain name registered with a given company and receive the hosting service from another, although lots of companies provide both services and it is more convenient to administer everything from one and the same website hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to change a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called NS records. Each web hosting corporation has at least 2 name servers - ns1.vista8online.com and ns2.vista8online.com, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name offers you the chance to change the nameservers and point the domain name to one web hosting company or another.

The Demand for Stable website hosting Solutions

Once the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting firm and is added to their web hosting servers, you will receive various online services. The most essential one is that the web site files that you accommodate on the web server will now be shown when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to create e-mail address accounts like name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an email client to tackle them. Whether you manage a personal or a business web page, being accessible online and being permitted to use email box accounts with your domain name are the two most fundamental options that you obtain with a website hosting plan. In case you run a business web site – it will identify your business before your website visitors or clients. That's why you demand a reliable web hosting distributor that will deliver a dependable and stable website hosting service.

Reliable web hosting Solutions by 'Vista 8 Online'

Other web services that you get by hosting a domain with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the ability to create and modify specific domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.