Affordably Priced Hosting Services for Your Domains

There are 2 things you require in order to set up a site. The first one is a domain name that will display your website when you type it in a web browser, and the other one is a website hosting plan, which is inherently the hard disk space on a web hosting server where the web page files will be located, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 linked, yet separate services, and you need both of them so as to have a working web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to sixty four symbols long and it includes 2 pieces – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above example, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can select the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a finite number of Top-Level Domains to select from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given interval of time between one and ten yrs. They may impose additional specifications with respect to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a hosting account where you have to host it. In this way, when you type it in a web browser, it will open the content that you host in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your website. You can have a domain name registered with a specific provider and obtain the hosting service from another, even though lots of web hosting companies offer both services and it is more convenient to handle everything from one web hosting Control Panel interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to alter a certain setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called NS records. Each hosting corporation has at least two nameservers - ns1.www.helioshost.com and ns2.www.helioshost.com, for example. The website hosting CP that you utilize for your domain gives you the possibility to alter the name servers and point the domain to one hosting firm or another.

The Demand for Stable web hosting Services

Once the domain is pointed to a concrete domain hosting vendor and is added to their servers, you will obtain a number of web services. The most important one is that the website files that you host on the web server will now be accessible when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to set up email addresses like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you host a personal or a business site, being accessible online and being permitted to set up mail accounts with your domain name are the two most pivotal options that come with a web hosting account. If you administer a business web page – it will single out your business before your visitors or clients. Therefore you require a stable company that will supply a dependable and stable website hosting solution.

Dependable web hosting Solutions by 'Helios Host'

Extra web services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and edit certain domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.