Budget Hosting Packages for Your TLDs

There are two things you require so as to launch a web 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 web hosting package, which is inherently the disk space on a hosting server where the web site files will be located, plus several more features that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are 2 connected, yet separate solutions, and you need both of them to have an operational web site.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it contains two constituents – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the abovementioned instance, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that is free to register, there is a finite number of Top-Level Domains to choose from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed spell of time between 1 and 10 years. They may entail more preconditions regarding the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting package where you have to accommodate it. In this way, when you write it in a web browser, it will open the site files that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your site. You can have a domain name registered with a particular company and obtain the hosting service from another, although numerous hosting distributors provide both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage everything from one and the same web hosting Control Panel tool. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to modify a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each web hosting supplier has at least two nameservers - ns1.nextlinkcloud.com and ns2.nextlinkcloud.com, for example. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the opportunity to modify the name server records and point the domain name to one web hosting vendor or another.

The Demand for Stable web hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain is pointed to a given domain hosting supplier and is added to their hosting servers, you will receive different web services. The most essential one is that the website files that you host on the server will now be shown when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to create email box accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an email client to administer them. Whether you own a personal or a business online portal, being accessible online and being allowed to create email mailboxes with your domain name are the two most cardinal things that you obtain with a web hosting plan. In case you administer a business web portal – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or customers. That is why you need a trustworthy web hosting firm that will deliver a reliable and stable web hosting service.

Stable web hosting Services by 'NextLink Cloud'

Other online services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the option to set up and edit given domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.