In the 21st century more or less every business has acknowledged the importance of Internet presence and having your own website. And when you add the people that want to have a personal site such as a blog to exchange thoughts on everyday topics, galleries to share pictures with friends and family or simply a fan site, you will realize that lots of websites are being released daily. But in order for a site to be successfully launched apart from the actual website, one would need to register a domain name and find a web hosting service.
What Is A Domain Name?
The domain name is the actual address of the website on the Internet and as such it is quite an important part of the website. With the increasing number of websites that are launched every day it is getting harder and harder to find a short and suitable domain name for your website that is still available for registration. That is why it is nice to find a company that would provide a variety of TLDs for domain name registration since that will increase your chances of finding a domain name that has not been taken.
What Is Domain Hosting?
Domain hosting is pointing a particular domain name to a particular web hosting account and that way the domain name is linked to the actual website that is uploaded in that account on the web server. It is very important to know the difference between hosting a domain name and hosting a web site. To host the website means to upload the website files on a web server while to host a domain name, as previously explained, is pointing the domain name to the web hosting account and thus to the website. If you are wondering how exactly the domain name is pointed to the hosting service, then you should know that this is done via changing the name server settings of the particular domain to those provided by the web hosting company.
So when you get a web hosting service it will allow you to host your website as well as your domain name. This means that web hosting packages may differ depending the number of domain names that can be hosted. For example, a hosting account may be suitable for hosting a single or a certain number of domain names (like 3, 5 or 10) and there is also the option for unlimited domain hosting. You can have a different website for each of the domain names that you host provided that the other resources of the web hosting package - like storage, databases and monthly traffic - will suffice. And of course you can certainly point multiple domain names to the same website that you are hosting within the account if you wish to make sure that even if someone mistypes the address, they will still get to your site.
There is a multitude of options available when you decide to register a domain as far as TLDs are concerned. Apart from the top level domains such as .com, .net and .biz, there are also country code domains that will provide you with a wider option when choosing the domain and they will also allow localize the your website starting from the name. For example if you own a car dealership in the UK or in the US and the popular .com domain name is taken but the .co.uk or the .us, respectively, is still free, then you have a great opportunity presented to you.
