What are Hosting Packages?
Running a web site nowadays is a requisite in terms of disseminating opinions, promoting a new business or just staying up to date with the newest tendencies. Since mails have replaced paper letters long ago and people search for more or less everything on the web, it is an excellent idea to build an online portal where clients can get informed about you or your business - this is a way to get closer to them, to explain to them what you think or what you offer. Let's have a peek at what you demand in order to make a website and the separate hosting services that permit you to fulfill that.
A Domain Name - The Online Address You Must Begin With
In the first place, you require a domain name - this is the World Wide Web address that visitors would write in their browser to visit your website. It should be something that is easy to remember, but also something that is related to the topic of your web site. Visitors would always wish something concise and simple and this is the first step toward winning some regular website visitors.
Picking The Proper Domain Name Extension For Your Domain Name(s)
The domain name includes two entities - the name itself and the extension, or in technical terms - an SLD (second-level domain name) and a TLD (top-level domain name). If we have "example.com", "example" is the SLD, and ".com" is the TLD. The TLDs are divided into generic TLDs - .com, .net, .info, .biz; and country-code Top-Level Domains - .us, .de, .es, and so on. While the .com/.net/.org top-level domain names are the most widely used TLDs, certain persons might be looking for a regional business, so remember that when you are choosing a domain for your online portal. If you are in Spain, for example, an .es domain and a web site in Spanish would perchance be a more suitable option than a .com web site in English. By all means, you can have both, targeting a larger group of people, so in this case it would be fine if you could stumble upon a hosting firm that provides the possibility of accommodating plenty of domain names in one user account. This will save you time and energy as you will be able to manage all domain names and sites from one and the same web hosting Control Panel rather than singing in and out endlessly in order to handle some domain name.
The Hosting Service - The Unseen Power Behind Every Website
This brings us to the second solution that you demand for your website beside the domain name - the hosting service itself. In simple terms, this is the space on a company's server where your files will be stored. When you write my-domain.com in a web browser, you will actually observe the web site files placed in your web hosting account with a hosting firm. In actuality, the hosting service is much more than this. It is a collection of all the services that let your web page become available on the Internet.
The Monthly Hosting Bandwidth and Traffic Aspects
Your website content is hosted on a web hosting server and to be able to view this content, the hosting corporation apportions a specific amount of bandwidth to your hosting account, which comes into play each and every time somebody pays a visit to your website. That quota may fluctuate from a few hundred megabytes to unmetered, on the basis of the hosting firm. When you go to a web site, the web site files are copied from the server to your PC and are then shown in your browser. A web portal with lots of pictures or an enormous amount of downloadable content would create much more web traffic, so this is a crucial aspect when the time comes for you to pick a proper shared hosting package.
Bethnan Hosting - The Proper Hosting Provider
The next service that is included in your web hosting package is the possibility to set up e-mail box accounts with your very own personal domain name. For a personal site, this may be something noncompulsory, but for a reputable firm it is more or less compulsory to have e-mails that are using the company's domain. This makes the firm seem more professional in the eyes of both present users and prospective customers. Based on the package, the amount of the email boxes or the mailbox size may be limited, but to remain up to date with what businesses demand, we at Bethnan Hosting provide an unlimited amount of e-mailboxes and an unmetered email box size allowance, thus satisfying the anticipations of any small or large-sized commercial enterprise. There is both webmail and mail client support available, so you can check your e-mailbox accounts from a PC, a tablet computer or even a hand phone.
Database Support (MySQL, Posgres, etc.)
For script-based websites, almost all hosting vendors provide database support. A database is a set of tables used for managing and restoring content shown on a site. One of the most proper illustrations would be a forum - all usernames, passwords, and discussion board posts are kept in a database and are called and displayed on the website by the forum script when a particular forum page is being looked up. This renders the site more efficient since just the data that is needed is retrieved and displayed. Databases are used with most scripts, including e-commerce sites, and are an important segment of the usual hosting service as of now. There are different sorts of database management systems - MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, etc. Which one you require is dependent on 2 conditions - which one(s) the particular hosting provider supports, and which type is demanded by the script that you want to utilize. It is important to verify these things before you settle on a provider.
FTP Support (Uploads, Downloads)
Another feature that usually comes with a hosting package is FTP access. FTP means File Transfer Protocol, and it is the most popular method of copying web site files to or from a remote web hosting server. You can upload your web site through an FTP software tool, but most web design software apps also have a built-in File Transfer Protocol functionality, so you can upload all your files with one click straight from the software platform you have used to set them up. For any subsequent revisions, you merely need to modify the site and then upload the edited website files, which renders running your site quite simple and time-efficient.
Additional Domain and Application Solutions
Additional services may comprise domain name management, an online-based web site building tool and an open-source PHP script installer. Even though they are not necessarily available with all hosting corporations, they are becoming a constituent of the normal hosting package thanks to the huge demand for an all-embracing hosting package where all the abovementioned functionalities are incorporated and can be handled through a single CP.
| Business | Starter | Corporate | Enterprise |
| Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage | Unlimited storage |
| Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth | Unlimited bandwidth |
| 5 websites hosted | 1 website hosted | Unlimited websites hosted | Unlimited websites hosted |
| 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial | 30-Day Free Trial |
| $8.33 / month | $6.08 / month | $12.83 / month | $17.17 / month |