Cheap Hosting Packages for Your Top-Level Domains

There are 2 things you require so as to set up a web page. The first one is a domain name that will display your online portal when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a website hosting plan, which is inherently the storage space on a server where the web page files will be placed, plus several more features that come with it. The domain and the web hosting account are 2 associated, yet different services, and you demand both of them to have a working site.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the address for the web page: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it is composed of 2 entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above instance, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the SLD of the domain to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a set number of TLDs to choose from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given interval of time between one and 10 yrs. They may have more requirements in regard to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting account where you have to add it. In this way, when you type it in a browser, it will exhibit the web content that you have in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your web site. You can have a domain registered with one provider and receive the hosting service from another, even though lots of web hosting distributors offer both solutions and it is more user-friendly to handle all services from the same hosting CP tool. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain name to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you need to alter a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named nameservers. Each web hosting vendor has at least 2 name servers - ns1.exonhosting.com and ns2.exonhosting.com, for example. The website hosting CP that you have for your domain name offers you the opportunity to modify the NS records and point the domain name to one service provider or another.

The Demand for Stable website hosting Services

Once the domain is pointed to a given domain hosting firm and is added to their web hosting servers, you will get several services. The most crucial one is that the website files that you have on the web server will now be available online when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to create e-mail addresses like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail client to manage them. Whether you manage a personal or a business website, being accessible online and being permitted to create electronic mail accounts with your domain are the two most important things that you receive with a web hosting account. In case you host a business site – it will single out your business before your web page visitors or clients. For this reason you require a reliable web hosting firm that will offer a fast and stable web hosting solution.

Reliable website hosting Services by 'Exon Hosting'

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