Affordable Web Hosting Plans for Your Domains

There are two entities you need so as to set up a website. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web page when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting plan, which is basically the hard disk storage space on a web hosting server where the site files will be located, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting plan are two associated, yet separate services, and you need both of them so as to have an operational website.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is composed of 2 entities – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned illustration, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that is free to register, there is a certain number of top-level domain names to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular period of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may entail other specifications concerning the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to host it. Thus, when you type it in a browser, it will open the site files that you have in the account, i.e. it will display your site. You can have a domain name registered with one provider and receive the hosting service from another, even though many hosting vendors offer both solutions and it is more convenient to manage all services from a single web hosting CP tool. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to modify a particular setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name servers. Each host has at least 2 name servers - ns1.dotestate.com and ns2.dotestate.com, for instance. The Control Panel that you have for your domain offers you the option to alter the name server records and point the domain to one hosting service provider or another.

The Need of Stable web hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a given domain hosting distributor and is added to their hosting servers, you will receive a number of online services. The most vital one is that the web site files that you have on the web server will now be available online when you write your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to set up mailboxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an email client to manage them. Whether you run a personal or a business online portal, being accessible online and being allowed to set up email mailboxes with your domain are the two most pivotal options that you get with a web hosting account. If you manage a business web page – it will identify your business before your visitors or customers. This is the reason why you require a dependable hosting supplier that will furnish a reliable and steady web hosting solution.

Reliable web hosting Services by '.estate'

Extra online services that you get by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and configure specific domain records from your Hepsia Control Panel.