When some ask they really don’t know even the difference and requirements for their website about Domain and Hosting.
Here I will try to explain the difference and need as easily as I can.
Let’s take an example from our daily life. The domain is like your contact no. if someone wants to contact you they must have your contact no. or your contact no. must mention it somewhere in the directory so that person can contact you. Similar Domain is same if someone wants to get your business online by the website he must know your domain name. However there is a bit of difference in that you can choose your domain by whatever name you want until someone didn’t buy it, but yes you still have a chance to get the exact domain if someone has taken the same one which you want for example. You want a domain name like www.yourbusiness.com but if someone has taken it already then you can take it as www.yourbusiness.in or .co.in, .net, .org, .online, etc. it will not affect your business until the same domain is very popular in the market that is the only reason that people look for the .com domain instead of something else.
So assume your domain is like a sim card/ phone no. which is useless until you insert it into the phone no one will be able to contact you.
Here comes the hosting part. Hosting is something that keeps all your file database, images, and everything you want to reflect on your website.
So assume your Hosting is a smartphone so when you insert your sim card (Domain) in your smartphone (Hosting) you could start getting the call.
As you can choose your smartphone and put ring tone, wallpaper, cover, games, etc. Same you can do in your Hosting that you can design and keep any type of file you want like a home page where you can over-view the site, an About Us page where can tell about you and your company, Forms where you can keep your customers database and details.
If your smartphone has less amount of storage and you put lots of images, music, and games it will be starting hanging or we can say it will slow down. The same thing will happen with the Hosting also if you have a starter plan (20GB Storage, Shared account, 5 emails. approx numbers) and you start putting lots of files in it and so many users start using it at a particular point of time your site may be slow down or server down.
Same as you upgrade your smartphone when it starts hanging you can do it any time without changing your phone no. (Domain).
icing as you can buy you phone no. at a very low price and sometimes some operator provides free with the new smartphone.
The same goes with Domain and Hosting some service provider provides you a free domain name when you buy new hosting from them. They have different types of Hosting plans basically of two types Shared hosting and dedicated hosting.
Shared hosting is where multiple websites are there where the small business site or static site which don’t have lots of data in it can use shared hosting. As here multiple users sharing the same server will not you very much. Whereas Dedicated hosting has a Dedicated server where only your website will be hosted there which make your website load faster and good for big business and eCommerce site and it will cost you more.
All the charges for Domain and Hosting are monthly quarterly, or annually charged depending on the service provider.
