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We are often asked by our Clients to explain what is the difference between a domain name and web hosting?
Most of our clients don’t know that these are two separate things.
In this simple guide, we will explain the difference between a domain name and web hosting.
Domain name is the Unique address of your website that people type in the browser’s URL bar to visit your website.
For instant, if your website was a house, then your domain name will be its address.
Now let’s throw more light on it
Internet is basically a giant network of computers connected to each other through cables. To easily identify them, each computer is assigned a series of numbers called IP Address.
This IP address is a combination of numbers separated with dots. Typically, IP addresses look like this:
66.249.66.1
Computers have no problem identifying and remembering these numbers. However, it is difficult for humans to remember and use these numbers to connect to websites on the internet.
To solve this problem, domain names were invented.
A domain name can have words which makes it easy to remember website addresses.
Now if you wanted to visit a website on the internet, you don’t need to type a string of numbers. Instead, you can type in an easy to remember domain name, for example, gwebit.com
When you create a website, you essentially create a bunch of different files. These files need to be stored somewhere in order to be accessible all over the world on the Internet.
Web hosting is the place where all the files of your website live. It is like the home of your website where it actually lives.
A good way to think about this is if the domain name was the address of your house, then web hosting is the actual house that address points to. All websites on the internet, need web hosting.
When someone enters your domain name in a browser, the domain name is translated into the IP address of your web hosting company’s computer. This computer contains your website’s files, and it sends those files back to the users’ browsers.
Web hosting companies specialize in storing and serving websites. They offer different types of hosting plans to their customers.
You have to pay a hosting provider to “host” these files for you on one of their servers usually yearly or monthly depending on your budget.
Domain names and web hosting are two different Things. But they work together to make websites work.
Basically a domain name system is like a massive address book that is constantly updated. Behind each domain name, there is an address of the web hosting service storing the website’s files.
Without domain names, it will not be possible for people to find your website and without web hosting you cannot build a website. Note that both of them work together (Domain Name can’t work without Web Hosting and Web Hosting can’t work without Domain Name).
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