What is domain name and hosting?
Domain Name : Domain name is the identity of IP addresses. Because human cannot remember digits easily so expert created term Domain names which directly map the IP address (digits) to alphabets. For example xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/site1/index.html is equal to www.site1.com. In this case we can easily remember www.site1.com instead of IP address.
Hosting Space or Web space : Web space is a server ( computer) where we upload our website files. You can take this space from any hosting company as per your need and upload your files on this space. This space is much like as a your car parking space, you can pay rent for this car parking space or you can buy your own car parking space.
If you are purchasing domain name from one company and hosting from any other company then you need to do some setting like:
Domain Name : Domain name is the identity of IP addresses. Because human cannot remember digits easily so expert created term Domain names which directly map the IP address (digits) to alphabets. For example xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/site1/index.html is equal to www.site1.com. In this case we can easily remember www.site1.com instead of IP address.
Hosting Space or Web space : Web space is a server ( computer) where we upload our website files. You can take this space from any hosting company as per your need and upload your files on this space. This space is much like as a your car parking space, you can pay rent for this car parking space or you can buy your own car parking space.
If you are purchasing domain name from one company and hosting from any other company then you need to do some setting like:
- Set the name server at your domain name provided by your hosting company. (Called as NS record setting on server setting or DNS setting).
- Set the mail server at you domain name provided by your hosting company.
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