Reasonably Priced Hosting Plans for Your Domains

There are two things you need in order to own a web page. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web page when you write it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting plan, which is primarily the disk space on a web server where the site files will be placed, plus several more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting package are two similar, yet separate solutions, and you demand both of them in order to have a working web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to sixty four symbols long and it is composed of two constituents – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the abovementioned example, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the TLD. While you can select the SLD of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a certain number of top-level domain names to pick from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular stretch of time between 1 and ten yrs. They may have additional requirements about 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 host it. In such a way, when you type it in a browser, it will open the web site files that you have in the account, in other words it will exhibit your online portal. You can have a domain registered with a given registrar and obtain the hosting service from another, although numerous hosting service providers offer both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage all services from one website hosting CP interface. Either way, because the domain registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To accomplish that, you have to change a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name server records. Each web hosting firm has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.lumenhost.com and ns2.lumenhost.com, for example. The web hosting CP that you utilize for your domain name offers you the opportunity to alter the name server records and point the domain to one hosting provider or another.

The Need of Reliable Web Hosting Services

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a given domain hosting corporation and is added to their web servers, you will get various online services. The most vital one is that the website files that you have on the web server will now be available online when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish mailbox accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you host a personal or a business web portal, being online and being allowed to use e-mail box accounts with your domain are the two most pivotal things that come with a website hosting account. If you have a corporate web site – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or clients. That is why you require a reliable web hosting corporation that will offer a dependable and steady hosting solution.

Stable web hosting Services by 'lumenhost'

Extra web services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to create and configure specific domain name records from your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel.