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What is the Difference between Web Hosting & Domain?

Web hosting is a service provided by web hosting companies which is meant for making websites accessible online. A domain or a domain name refers to the name of a website.

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What is the Difference between Web Hosting & Domain?

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  1. Despite being correlated, web hosting and domain hosting are two entirely different services. In web hosting, web hosting companies provide server space for storing the content of a website on it. On the other hand, domain names are provided by domain hosts. What is a Domain Name? A domain name is recognizing texts which seem like a part of your website's address. It depends on the domain diffuseness you have used for your website. It depends on the domain supplement you have used for your website. This number is repeatedly increasing. For example: .pro, .co, .in, .us, .ca,.academy, etc. Internet connection is a huge network of computers connected through cables. To easily identify them, each computer is allotted a series of numbers called IP Addresses. This IP address is a combination of numbers divided with dots IP addresses look like this: 67.259.66.1 A domain name can have words which makes it easy to recall website addresses. Now if you desire to go through 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, htssolusions.com. What are the types of domain hosting? The most common types of domain names include:

  2. TLD: Top Level Domains A top-level domain is absolutely what it sounds like: a type of domain name which is at the top level of the internet’s domain name system. There are over a thousand TLDs accessible but the most ordinary include .com, .org, .net, and .edu. ccTLD: Country Code Top Level Domains ccTLDs contain two letters and are used for various countries and sovereign states of the world. Some examples are, “.in” for India and “.sa” for Saudi Arabia. These are most frequently used by such organizations that are creating sites, which are region specific, and indicate to the users that they have reached the correct site. gTLD: Generic Top Level Domain A gTLD is essentially a top-level domain that doesn’t depend on a country code. Many gTLDs are planned for a specific use case, like a .edu which is aimed at educational institutions. Second examples of gTLDs include .mil (military), .gov (government), .org (for nonprofits and organizations), and .net, which was fundamentally designed for internet service providers (ISPs) but is now used more widely. What is Web Hosting? Web hosting is the storage location where your website content files are kept.This is like the home of your website. If your domain name was the address of your residence, then the actual residence is your hosting server. You need both a domain name and web hosting to produce a website. Web hosting organizations specialize in storing and serving websites. They provide various types of hosting plans to their customers. When a user attempts to access your website by entering your web address (domain name) in the browser’s URL bar, the domain name points them to the files kept in the webserver. Then, they can view your website online. What are the types of Web hosting? There are various web hosting services provided by web hosting companies. Here the Four types are widely bought by website owners. Shared Hosting: In a shared hosting plan, you are sharing the server with variant website owners. That means you share the physical server as well as few software applications with different users.

  3. Dedicated Hosting: Dedicated hosting is a private hosting plan where you get the finished web server. Here, you are neither serving your server nor resources. However, your buy hosting price will be high. Collocated Hosting: In this hosting service, you purchase your server but locate the server on the hosting provider's premises. You will be entirely responsible for your server. In these kinds of hosting plans, you also get full authority and access rights. Cloud Hosting: Cloud hosting permits you to automatically increase/decrease server resources based on your website traffic. The billing is done on a per-hour basis, and there is no stabled cost complicated in it. VPS Hosting: It is perfect for people who need more than a shared plan but still does not need a dedicated server because of a rigid budget. Reseller Hosting: It provides the ability to host various domains/websites. Hosting services may be resold to other parties. Reseller hosting granary shares a server with other reseller accounts. How a Domain Name and web hosting are co-related? Domain names and web hosting are two discrete services. However, they work side by side to create websites feasible. Primarily, a domain name system is like a massive address book that is permanently updated and contains knowledge about different domain names assigned to various entities. There is an address of the web hosting service behind each domain name for more collection of the website files. Without domain names, it will not be feasible for people to search your website and without web hosting, you cannot build a website.

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