Cut-Rate Hosting Services for Your Top-Level Domain Names

There are 2 entities you need in order to start a site. The first one is a domain name that will show your web page when you type it in a web browser, and the other one is a website hosting account, which is basically the hard disk space on a web hosting server where the web site files will be situated, plus a few more services that are included in it. The domain and the web hosting plan are two interconnected, yet separate solutions, and you need both of them so as to have a functioning website.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is the alpha-numeric combination that you will select to be the web address for the web portal: my-best-domain.com, for example. A domain can be up to 64 symbols long and it includes 2 parts – a top-level domain name (TLD) and a Second-Level Domain (SLD). In the aforementioned example, my-best-domain is the Second-Level Domain, and .com is the Top-Level Domain. While you can pick the SLD of the domain to be anything that has not been taken yet, there is a fixed number of TLDs to pick from. The top-level domain names can be generic (gTLDs) or country-code (ccTLDs), and can be registered for a given span of time between one and ten years. They may include additional specifications about the registrant.

Domain Name Hosting Services

As the domain is just a name and nothing more than that, you need a web hosting account where you have to add it. In such a way, when you type it in a web browser, it will exhibit the content that you host in the account, i.e. it will open your web page. You can have a domain registered with a given company and obtain the hosting service from another, although numerous web hosting vendors offer both solutions and it is more convenient to administer everything from a single website hosting CP GUI. Either way, because the domain registration and the website hosting account are different services, you have to point the domain name to the web server where it will be added as hosted. To do that, you need to change a certain setting, or record, of the domain - the so-called NS records. Each hosting distributor has at least 2 nameservers - ns1.www.goldendelta.net and ns2.www.goldendelta.net, for instance. The web hosting CP that you have for your domain name offers you the option to alter the name server records and point the domain to one web hosting distributor or another.

The Necessity for Reliable web hosting Services

As soon as the domain name is pointed to a certain domain hosting firm and is added to their web hosting servers, you will obtain different services. The most essential one is that the web page files that you host on the hosting server will now be displayed when you write your domain in a web browser. You will also be able to create email mailboxes such as name@my-best-domain.com and use webmail or an e-mail client to handle them. Whether you host a personal or a business web page, being accessible online and being permitted to create email accounts with your domain name are the two most pivotal options that you receive with a web hosting package. In case you run a business web page – it will represent your business before your web site visitors or customers. For that reason you demand a stable hosting supplier that will supply a reliable and steady web hosting solution.

Stable Website Hosting Solutions by 'Golden Delta'

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