WHAT IS WEB HOSTING AND DOMAIN NAMES?

To get your website up and running through world wide web, you will need a web hosting and domain names to make it work for you. This posting will explain to you in a simple way what is web hosting and domain names and why you need it to get your websites up and running.

General term of web hosting is a machine/computer that connects through internet that stores web script and allow it accessible publicly to world wide web. This web hosting can be connect through public ip (for public viewing) and also private ip (for local network view) to get into your store website.

Web hosting is needed when you need public viewing because a web hosting is running 24/7 everyday nonstop so people can access your website anytime and anywhere. If you don't have web hosting, you can also use your home computer or laptop to host your website. You need to have technical knowledge for that and you can also learn that just by google how to do it. Although it will not solve your solutions because you need to online your computer 24/7 hours everyday. Better get a web hosting for that kind of job.

Domain name is a website name. Example hostsinimo.com is a domain name. Domain name need to be pointed to the web hosting so it can reach your website. Example your webhosting is on 172.12.12.12 so your domain name need to be pointed to that ip address so your website can be accessible using a domain name instead of typing ip address. Domain name is more easy to remember by human brain rather than remembering ip address. That's why you need a domain name so it can easily remembered and also can branding your brand.

SUMMARY OF WEB HOSTING AND DOMAIN NAME

Web Hosting: Machine/Computer that store your website script
Domain Name: A name for your website that can be easily remember by human brain

CAN I HAVE A WEB HOSTING WITHOUT DOMAIN NAME?

To answer to that question yes you can. You don't need domain name to access your web. But to access your web need to use ip address that not easy to remember by human brain.

CAN I HAVE A DOMAIN NAME WITHOUT WEB HOSTING?

You can buy a domain name first if you afraid of losing that name when you are not ready yet on web hosting.
But you cannot host a website without web hosting because we already tell you before that web hosting is a place where you store your website script.

Be careful when you buying a web hosting, you don't want to lose your precious website by hosting into unreliable web hosting providers.

HOW TO CHOOSE WEB HOSTING PROVIDERS?

1) Support
That's right, support is the most important things when you hosting a website. Many cheapest web hosting providers out there did not offer any support or low support. It will result on the risk you will lost you website.

2) Reliability
Find a review about that web hosting providers on the internet to make sure they have a good reputation and not a scam site.

3) Closer to you
Find a web hosting providers that close to your location. Example if you from Malaysia, you might want to get Malaysia Web Hosting

You can also buy web hosting providers far from your location but the web accessibility will be slower a little bit because it far away. However don't worry much about it because with the latest technology can you get a Content Delivery Network (CDN) like cloud flare to solve the issue.

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