Inexpensive Web Hosting Plans for Your Domains

There are two entities you require so as to host a web site. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your online portal when you write it in a browser, and the second one is a web hosting account, which is basically the data storage space on a web server where the web site files will be located, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting package are two similar, yet different solutions, and you need both of them to have a functioning web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the web address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to sixty four characters long and it contains 2 pieces – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can select the SLD of the domain to be anything that is available for registration, there is a set number of top-level domain names to select from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given period of time between 1 and 10 years. They may have additional specifications about the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Solutions

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting account where you have to add it. Thus, when you write it in a web browser, it will display the web site files that you host in the account, i.e. it will display your website. You can have a domain registered with one company and get the hosting service from another, although a lot of web hosting suppliers provide both solutions and it is more user-friendly to manage everything from the same CP GUI. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting package are different services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to alter a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name server records. Each web host has at least 2 name servers - ns1.mbsdigitalsolutions.com and ns2.mbsdigitalsolutions.com, for instance. The web hosting CP that you use for your domain name offers you the possibility to change the NS records and point the domain to one hosting service provider or another.

The Necessity for Trustworthy web hosting Solutions

The moment the domain is pointed to a particular domain hosting supplier and is added to their servers, you will obtain different web services. The most crucial one is that the site files that you accommodate on the server will now be displayed when you type your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to establish mails like name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or a mail user agent to handle them. Whether you host a personal or a corporate site, being online and being able to set up mails with your domain are the two most essential things that come with a website hosting plan. If you own a corporate website – it will single out your business before your web page visitors or customers. For this reason you demand a reliable web hosting supplier that will provide a dependable and stable web hosting solution.

Dependable Web Hosting Solutions by 'MBS Digital Solutions'

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, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the ability to create and configure specific domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.