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Cut-Rate Hosting Packages for Your Top-Level Domains

There are two items you demand so as to open a site. The first one is a domain name that will open your website when you type it in a web browser, and the second one is a web hosting package, which is basically the data storage space on a web server where the web page files will be placed, plus several more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting package are 2 linked, yet separate solutions, and you require them both to have a running online portal.

What is a Domain?

A domain is the alpha-numeric name that you will choose to be the address for the site: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to sixty four characters long and it consists of 2 entities – a Top-Level Domain (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the abovementioned instance, my-best-domain is the SLD, and .com is the top-level domain name. While you can pick the second-level domain name of the domain name to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a fixed number of TLDs to pick from. The TLDs can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a certain interval of time between 1 and 10 yrs. They may have other requirements regarding the registrant.

Domain Hosting Solutions

As the domain name is just a hostname and nothing more than that, you demand a web hosting plan where you have to accommodate it. Thus, when you write it in a browser, it will open the content that you have in the account, i.e. it will exhibit your website. You can have a domain registered with a specific company and obtain the hosting service from another, even though lots of hosting providers offer both solutions and it is more time-saving to manage everything from a single CP tool. Either way, since the domain name registration and the website 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 need to change a given setting, or record, of the domain name - the so-called name servers. Each web hosting service provider has at least two name servers - ns1.bootdomain.com and ns2.bootdomain.com, for instance. The hosting CP that you utilize for your domain offers you the opportunity to change the name servers and point the domain name to one web host or another.

The Need of Dependable web hosting Services

Once the domain is pointed to a specific domain hosting distributor and is added to their web servers, you will get various online services. The most essential one is that the website files that you have on the web hosting server will now be available online when you write your domain name in a web browser. You will also be able to create e-mail boxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and make use of webmail or a mail client to administer them. Whether you administer a personal or a corporate web page, being accessible online and being permitted to set up e-mailbox accounts with your domain are the two most important options that you receive with a website hosting plan. In case you have a business web portal – it will represent your business before your website visitors or customers. That is the reason why you demand a stable service provider that will furnish a fast and steady web hosting service.

Reliable Web Hosting Solutions by 'BootDomain.com'

Additional online services that you receive by hosting a domain with us include: File Transfer Protocol access to upload and download files effortlessly, domain name forwarding, email auto-responders and electronic mailing lists, and the option to set up and modify specific domain name records from your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel.