Half-Priced Hosting Plans for Your Domain Names

There are two entities you need so as to open a website. The first one is a domain name that will display your website when you type it in a browser, and the other one is a web hosting plan, which is essentially the disk space on a web hosting server where the web site files will be placed, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting account are two interconnected, yet different services, and you need them both to have a running web site.

What is a Domain?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric name that you will pick to be the address for the website: my-best-domain.com, for instance. A domain name can be up to 64 characters long and it is made of two constituents – 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 TLD. While you can choose the Second-Level Domain of the domain to be anything that is open for registration, there is a set number of Top-Level Domains to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain span of time between 1 and ten years. They may include additional stipulations concerning the registrant.

Domain Name Web Hosting Services

As the domain is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you require a web hosting package where you have to include it. In such a way, when you type it in a browser, it will exhibit the website files that you host in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your site. You can have a domain name registered with a certain company and receive the hosting service from another, even though lots of web hosting companies provide both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage everything from one single CP GUI. Either way, since the domain registration and the website hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain to the server where it will be added as hosted. To perform that, you need to modify a given setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called NS records. Each web hosting vendor has at least two nameservers - ns1.hosting.octacorenetworks.com and ns2.hosting.octacorenetworks.com, for example. The website hosting Control Panel that you utilize for your domain name gives you the possibility to alter the name server records and point the domain to one web host or another.

The Necessity for Reliable web hosting Services

As soon as the domain is pointed to a given domain hosting service provider and is added to their servers, you will obtain several services. The most important one is that the website files that you host on the web hosting server will now be displayed when you write your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to set up mail address accounts such as name@my-best-domain.com and utilize webmail or a mail user agent to administer them. Whether you manage a personal or a business online portal, being available online and being permitted to set up mails with your domain name are the two most essential options that you get with a website hosting package. If you have a business site – it will identify your business before your website visitors or clients. This is why you demand a reliable service provider that will provide a fast and stable web hosting service.

Dependable web hosting Solutions by 'Octacore Networks'

Additional services that you get 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 certain domain name records from your Hepsia website hosting CP.