Low-Price Hosting Solutions for Your Domain Names

There are 2 entities you demand so as to run a web site. The first one is a domain name that will exhibit your web page when you write it in a web browser, and the other one is a hosting package, which is inherently the hard disk storage space on a server where the web site files will be located, plus several more features that it is offering. The domain name and the web hosting package are two related, yet different services, and you demand both of them in order to have a working web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will pick to be the web address for the online portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it is made of 2 components – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned instance, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can pick the Second-Level Domain of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a finite 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 fixed period of time between one and 10 years. They may contain additional prerequisites with respect to the registrant.

Domain Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a hosting package where you have to accommodate it. Thus, when you type it in a web browser, it will display the content that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your web site. You can have a domain name registered with a given provider and get the hosting service from another, even though numerous hosting firms provide both services and it is more convenient to handle everything from a single web hosting Control Panel GUI. Either way, since the domain name registration and the web hosting package are separate services, you have to point the domain name to the web 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 firm has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.darkforged.net and ns2.darkforged.net, for instance. The hosting CP that you utilize for your domain gives you the possibility to change the NS records and point the domain to one web hosting service provider or another.

The Demand for Stable Hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain is pointed to a certain domain hosting corporation and is added to their web servers, you will receive various web services. The most vital one is that the website files that you accommodate on the web server will now be exhibited when you type your domain in a browser. You will also be able to establish email boxes like name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or a mail client to tackle them. Whether you have a personal or a corporate online portal, being online and being able to set up e-mail accounts with your domain name are the two most important options that come with a hosting package. If you own a corporate online portal – it will represent your business before your visitors or customers. For that reason you demand a dependable service provider that will furnish a reliable and stable hosting solution.

Dependable Hosting Services by 'Darkforged Services'

Additional web services that you obtain by hosting a domain name with us are: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files easily, domain forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and mailing lists, and the ability to set up and modify specific domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.