Cheap Hosting Plans for Your TLDs

There are two entities you require in order to kick off an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will open your site when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting account, which is basically the disk storage space on a server where the web page files will be located, plus several more features that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting package are 2 similar, yet separate services, and you require them both in order to have a running web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will select to be the address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain can be up to 64 characters long and it comprises 2 entities – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a second-level domain name (SLD). In the above example, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is open for registration, there is a certain number of top-level domain names to select from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a particular span of time between one and ten years. They may impose more specifications with respect to the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting package where you have to add it. In such a way, when you type it in a browser, it will show the content that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your site. You can have a domain registered with one company and get the hosting service from another, even though a lot of hosting firms offer both services and it is more user-friendly to manage all services from the same web hosting CP user interface. Either way, because the domain name registration and the web hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you need to modify a particular setting, or record, of the domain name - the commonly named name server records. Each web hosting firm has at least two name servers - ns1.maltahosting.biz and ns2.maltahosting.biz, for example. The website hosting Control Panel that you have for your domain offers you the possibility to modify the name server records and point the domain name to one web host or another.

The Necessity for Trustworthy web hosting Solutions

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a specific domain hosting distributor and is added to their web servers, you will receive a number of services. The most vital one is that the web page files that you accommodate on the server will now be accessible when you type your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to establish e-mail box accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an email client to administer them. Whether you manage a personal or a business web page, being online and being enabled to create mail accounts with your domain name are the two most essential things that you receive with a web hosting plan. In case you own a business web portal – it will represent your business before your website visitors or customers. That's why you need a stable hosting provider that will furnish a dependable and steady web hosting service.

Dependable web hosting Services by 'Malta Hosting'

Other online services that you obtain by hosting a domain with us include: FTP access to upload and download files easily, domain name forwarding, e-mail auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the possibility to create and modify specific domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.