Cheap Hosting Services for Your Domains

There are two features you need in order to have a web portal. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your website when you write it in a web browser, and the second one is a website hosting account, which is primarily the hard disk storage space on a hosting server where the site files will be located, plus several more features that it is offering. The domain and the web hosting plan are two interconnected, yet different solutions, and you require them both in order to have a functioning site.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will choose to be the web address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it consists of two entities – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can select the SLD of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a fixed number of top-level domain names to pick from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular spell of time between 1 and ten yrs. They may have additional requirements with regard to the registrant.

Domain Name Web 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 add it. In such a way, when you write it in a browser, it will show the web page files that you have in the account, in other words it will display your web page. You can have a domain registered with a given registrar and receive the hosting service from another, even though many web hosting suppliers offer both services and it is more time-saving to manage all services from one single hosting CP interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the website hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you have to alter a given setting, or record, of the domain - the commonly named name servers. Each hosting service provider has at least two name servers - ns1.sonnyserver.com.ng and ns2.sonnyserver.com.ng, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the opportunity to change the nameservers and point the domain to one web hosting supplier or another.

The Demand for Trustworthy web hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a given domain hosting company and is added to their web hosting servers, you will get a number of services. The most important one is that the web site files that you host on the server will now be available online when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to set up mail addresses like name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or an e-mail client to administer them. Whether you run a personal or a business web page, being online and being able to use emails with your domain name are the two most pivotal things that you get with a website hosting package. If you manage a corporate online portal – it will identify your business before your web site visitors or clients. For that reason you require a dependable web hosting vendor that will offer a dependable and steady hosting service.

Dependable website hosting Solutions by 'Sonny server Hosting'

Other services that you get by hosting a domain name with us include: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to create and modify given domain records from your Hepsia web hosting CP.