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What is Hosting and Domain? – Explained

Hosting and Domain these are the most common word you might hear in previous two year, but still you are in confusion about their detailed meaning. So here I am to explain you guys about Hosting and Domain. If you find my blogs helpful then please share my blog with your friends as Sharing is caring ๐Ÿ™‚ So let’s het started.

What is Hosting?

When you create a website it should be accessible 24 hours so any user can reach to your website. To keep your website accessible all time you might need a computer that is connected to internet and accessible 24 hours. These system are commonly called Hosting. There are various company which setup many computers and allocate them to different users. These companies are called Hosting Provider. There are a different types of hosting available, Let’s take a look.

Shared Hosting

This is the most basic hosting you can buy at low price. Shared hosting referred to the hosting when a single computer is divided into different parts and allocated to different users. This hosing are generally slow and can handle a low amount of users only. These server also suffers Downtime, But when anyone starts their website then this hosting is considered good as it is cheap.

VPS

VPS stand For virtual private server, in this hosting you gets your own computer. There is no any other user with whom you have to share your space. These hosting are reliable and also comes in different pricing. The pricing of these servers differ depending upon the Plan you buy, Pricing are available on different hosting providers.

WordPress Managed Hosting

This is something you can call specially customized hosting for WordPress sites, this hosting also comes with different plans, you can buy one according to your need. WordPress Hosting is a great way to start if you don’t know how to code. At first I will recommend you to buys starter plan if you want to learn.

There are some other hosting differ from Provider to Provider You can check that on their hosting page.

What is Domain?

Domain is referred to the address which will be used to open your site. One can visit your site through the IP address but that would be difficult to remember, that’s why domain came to use. It is easier to remember and will can be easily reached.

A domain name consist of two part one is your word part like (Kinzohelps) & one is extension like (.com). There are various extension available for specific country & Worldwide Targeting you can check the list of the specific country domain region available on google.

What Is TLD?

TLD refer to Top Level Domain, these are the domain having high priority. that’s why they are called Top Level Domain. Some Top level Domain extensions are .com, .in, .org and many more in specific region. These TLD are easy to rank and you should go for it if you have the budget.

Where To Buy Cheap Domain?

Buying a domain might be tricky as different provider charges different amount for the same domain. If you resides in India there are some provider which can provide you domain for low costs comparing other providers. Some of the cheap Domain sellers are HostingRaja, Hostinger, Hostmycode, Godaddy and many more. Always do a research before buying a domain cause doing so will save your money, as most of the beginner doesn’t have money to spend.

Never Pay For These Free Domains

Some of the domain extension are free and you can use them, while many providers charge a bit but you should never pay for the domain extension like .ml and .tk these domain are available for free. If you want to know how to get .ml and .tk domain for free then let me know in the comment section. I will write a dedicated post about this.

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