Reasonably Priced Hosting Solutions for Your Top-Level Domains

There are 2 items you demand in order to have an online portal. The first one is a domain name that will show your online portal when you type it in a browser, and the second one is a hosting account, which is basically the hard disk storage space on a server where the website files will be located, plus several more features that come with it. The domain name and the web hosting account are two associated, yet different services, and you need both of them to have a functioning web portal.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it comprises two parts – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the second-level domain name, and .com is the TLD. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain to be anything that is free to register, there is a set number of TLDs to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given interval of time between 1 and ten years. They may contain other requirements with respect to the registrant.

Domain Web Hosting Services

As the domain name is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a website hosting account where you have to add it. Thus, when you type it in a browser, it will open the web content that you have in the account, i.e. it will display your web portal. You can have a domain registered with a specific company and receive the hosting service from another, even though a lot of web hosts offer both solutions and it is more convenient to administer all services from one and the same website hosting CP tool. Either way, because the domain registration and the hosting plan are different services, you have to point the domain to the hosting server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you have to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called nameservers. Each web host has at least two nameservers - ns1.lairmail.net and ns2.lairmail.net, for example. The CP that you have for your domain gives you the option to change the name server records and point the domain name to one hosting provider or another.

The Need of Trustworthy website hosting Services

The moment the domain name is pointed to a certain domain hosting provider and is added to their hosting servers, you will obtain a number of services. The most essential one is that the web page files that you host on the hosting server will now be available online when you write your domain in a browser. You will also be able to create email addresses such as name@my-best-domain.com and avail of webmail or a mail client to tackle them. Whether you administer a personal or a business web page, being available online and being permitted to use electronic mailboxes with your domain are the two most important options that you receive with a website hosting account. If you host a corporate web page – it will single out your business before your visitors or clients. That's why you demand a stable service provider that will offer a dependable and stable website hosting solution.

Reliable web hosting Solutions Courtesy of 'Lair Mail'

Other 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 mailing lists, and the ability to create and modify given domain records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.