Cheap Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names

There are 2 features you need in order to start a web page. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your online portal when you write it in a browser, and the other one is a website hosting account, which is essentially the data storage space on a server where the site files will be situated, plus several more services that are included in it. The domain name and the web hosting plan are two interconnected, yet separate services, and you demand them both to have an operational web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the web site: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it includes two parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned instance, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can choose the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that has not been registered yet, there is a finite number of top-level domain names to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular span of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may impose other preconditions with regard to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting account where you have to host it. In such a way, when you write it in a web browser, it will open the files that you have in the account, in other words it will exhibit your website. You can have a domain name registered with a specific provider and receive the hosting service from another, even though a lot of web hosting vendors offer both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage all services from one and the same website hosting CP user interface. Either way, since the domain registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to alter a specific setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called name server records. Each web hosting supplier has at least 2 name servers - ns1.webinafrica.com and ns2.webinafrica.com, for example. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain gives you the chance to alter the name server records and point the domain name to one web hosting distributor or another.

The Need of Stable Web Hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting company and is added to their servers, you will receive a number of online services. The most vital one is that the site files that you keep on the web server will now be accessible 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 user agent to manage them. Whether you own a personal or a corporate web page, being online and being permitted to create email boxes with your domain name are the two most important options that come with a web hosting package. If you host a corporate online portal – it will identify your business before your website visitors or customers. That is why you need a dependable web hosting service provider that will deliver a dependable and steady website hosting service.

Stable web hosting Solutions by 'WebInAfrica'

Other web services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and mailing lists, and the possibility to set up and modify specific domain name records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.