Affordably Priced Hosting Plans for Your Domains

There are two features you need in order to own an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your website when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a web hosting plan, which is primarily the storage space on a hosting server where the website files will be located, plus several more features that it is offering. The domain and the web hosting plan are two associated, yet separate services, and you need both of them so as to have a functioning site.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is made of two pieces – a Top-Level Domain (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 choose the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a fixed number of Top-Level Domains to select from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain stretch of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may contain additional preconditions regarding the registrant.

Domain Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a website hosting plan where you have to accommodate it. In such a way, when you type it in a browser, it will display the web page files that you host in the account, in other words it will exhibit your website. You can have a domain name registered with a particular company and obtain the hosting service from another, although numerous hosting vendors provide both solutions and it is more user-friendly to administer all services from one Control Panel tool. Either way, since the domain name registration and the website hosting plan 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 certain setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called nameservers. Each provider has at least two nameservers - ns1.www.zapdn.com and ns2.www.zapdn.com, for instance. The web hosting Control Panel that you use for your domain name offers you the chance to modify the nameservers and point the domain to one web host or another.

The Demand for Dependable web hosting Solutions

Once the domain name is pointed to a particular domain hosting service provider and is added to their web hosting servers, you will obtain different online services. The most essential one is that the web site files that you keep on the hosting server will now be displayed when you write your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to create mail addresses like name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or a mail client to tackle them. Whether you administer a personal or a corporate site, being accessible online and being allowed to create mail accounts with your domain are the two most important things that come with a web hosting account. If you have a business web site – it will identify your business before your website visitors or clients. For that reason you demand a reliable provider that will provide a reliable and steady website hosting solution.

Trustworthy web hosting Solutions by 'Zap Domains'

Extra web services that you receive by hosting a domain with us are: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to set up and edit specific domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.