What is the difference between web hosting and domain?

[hynds]

In order one website to go live, you need 3 parts: website source + domain + hosting

In this your case, you've just only had the 1st part, that is your website source. So the next steps are you should buy hosting and buy a domain.

About buying hosting, you can buy it from many big guys such as: Godaddy, Namecheap, iPage, Fatcow,...Especially with Godaddy hosting, you can buy just only for $1/month. Or you can research many other big guys to compare their service each other. Then you need to decide which hosting provider is suitable your requirements and your business. After having your hosting, you need to upload all your website source code on to your host (usually in to *www/public_html* folder) by using FTP Manger or any FTP tool such as Filezilla.

After having your website and hosting, the next step is choosing the domain name to buy. You can choose the domain that related to your business or related to your main keyword. Then buy it at one of the most largest domain registrars such as Godaddy, Namecheap, Dotster, Domain. com, 1&1,...With Godaddy you can buy domain for just only 99 cent if you're a new customer of them. You can buy domain as simple as you buy the hosting. At this stage, you have domain, hosting, and a website installed on that hosting.

The next step is you need to point your domain to your hosting. The pointing process is based on each domain registrar you purchased. Read them at registrar website document. Basically, you just need to replace their default DNS to your hosting DNS that your hosting provider give you.

That're all you need to run a website. Good luck to you.

[Jamison]

What is the difference between web?

[tourism123]

A web hosting normally refers to the web server.
web domain is the name given to the web server.

[sachin_bharmoria]

Take it simple.
You have thousands of files in your Computer/Mobile. Each file has a different location.
Similarly, Each Domain has its unique Domain name and IP.
Hosting is the space where files of a website is saved.

[bidaddy]

When you register a domain, it gives you sole ownership and rights to the name of your site. No one else in the market has the access to the actual name of that particular domain besides you.

A web hosting normally refers to the web server (big computer) that stores lots of data files).


A web hosting providers normally rent out web servers and network connection to the end-users or the resellers. For most cases, the hosting providers will be the parties handling most server maintenance work (such as backup, root configuration, maintenance, disaster recoveries, etc); but for certain cases, the end users will need to get everything cover by themselves.

[veena]

Domain is your web name & web hosting shall be uploading your web pages

[Trupti42]

Domain name And Web Hosting Explained. To simplify: A domain name, is like the address of your home; web hosting on the other hand, is the space of your house where you place your furniture. Instead of street name and area code, set of words or/and numbers are used for the website'snaming

[David910]

Domain name

Computers communicate by using numbers, called IP addresses, to contact each other, much like you use a phone number to dial a specific person's phone. Domain names on the internet are much like entries in a phone book. The phone book tells people looking for a business what the entries are just as a domain tells people (i.e. their computers) that a domain is hosted on the server.
Without a domain you would not be able to use a domain name such as mysite.com, making your site appear unprofessional and impractical if your visitors are able to load it at all.

Web hosting
The web-hosting or server is much like the space that you rent out to have your business in. It's merely the space itself. It does not include furnishings like shelves for your products, just as the web-hosting account doesn't include a site for you to sell your products.
In the web-hosting world, it's very easy to furnish the space provided by your host, because you can install many framework applications through the QuickInstall icon within your cPanel.
Without the hosting services, you won't have a place for your files to reside, so your domain would then become like a disconnected phone number in the phone directory, and your site files would have nowhere to stay.

[katherinwatsonjr]

Can't agree more. Thanks for the detail sharing

[Alex Jack]

Web hosting is the service provided by the hosts to business firms or individuals to host their websites or blogs so that their sites or blogs accessed by the internet users globally.
Domain is the domain name of a particular website through which that particular site can be accessed.To be very general domain name can be treated as the address of the site.

[ChristRodriguez]

web hosting is a server to storage your web data, domain is the name of your site with .com,.net,...etc.

[maha]

good

[JoeEvans]

To simplify: A domain name, is like the address of your home; web hosting on the other hand, is the space of your house where you place your furniture.

[rohittyagi]

WEB HOSTING

To make online presence of your website, one need to host their website so that anyone can easily access publicly. Most of the hosting companies requires the domain of our own to host with them. Well, it is quite important for the users to make their online presence and for this they need a website. The web hosting services is the land where we can easily build up the house for ourselves. So, this is only the place where one user can place their website in order to get their business growth. The Web Hosting services are highly available in the market all over the world as website creation is the most prominent factor for business startups.

DOMAINS

Domain names are used for the establishment of identifying the unique identity. Organizations also choose the domain name that corresponds to their name and helps the internet users to reach them very quickly and easily. Domain names are simply referred to domain owners and have the exclusive right of use for the particular duration of time. A generic domain name is the name that defines the category rather than personnel instance. Such a move usually requires changing the address of Domain Name and corresponds to the translation of the address.

[alice110]

To simplify: A domain name, is like the address of your home; web hosting on the other hand, is the space of your house where you place your furniture. Instead of street name and area code, set of words or/and numbers are used for the website's naming'. ... The difference between domain name with web hosting.