Cheap Web Hosting Services for Your Domains

There are two items you require in order to own a web site. The first one is a domain name that will show your site when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a web hosting account, which is fundamentally the hard disk space on a server where the website files will be placed, plus a few more services that come with it. The domain and the web hosting plan are 2 similar, yet different solutions, and you need both of them in order to have a functioning website.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the web address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to sixty four symbols long and it includes 2 parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can choose the SLD of the domain to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a certain number of TLDs to pick from. The Top-Level Domains can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a fixed span of time between 1 and 10 years. They may have additional stipulations with respect to the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you demand a website hosting account where you have to host it. Thus, when you write it in a browser, it will exhibit the web page files that you host in the account, in other words it will display your web portal. You can have a domain registered with one company and receive the hosting service from another, although a lot of web hosting corporations offer both services and it is more user-friendly to administer everything from one single web hosting CP user interface. Either way, since the domain name registration and the website hosting plan are separate services, you have to point the domain to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To achieve that, you have to change a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called nameservers. Each web hosting company has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.wisehost.ca and ns2.wisehost.ca, for example. The hosting CP that you use for your domain name gives you the opportunity to change the name servers and point the domain to one web hosting provider or another.

The Necessity for Reliable web hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting firm and is added to their hosting servers, you will get several services. The most important one is that the web site files that you have on the hosting server will now be shown when you write your domain name in a browser. You will also be able to establish electronic mail accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or an e-mail client to handle them. Whether you manage a personal or a corporate web site, being online and being able to use email box accounts with your domain name are the two most important things that you receive with a web hosting package. If you manage a business site – it will identify your business before your web page visitors or clients. For that reason you need a reliable hosting supplier that will offer a reliable and stable website hosting solution.

Dependable web hosting Services by 'WiseHost.ca'

Additional services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us include: FTP access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the ability to create and modify given domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.