What is web hosting?

Have you ever thought about creating your own website? If you want to get a beautiful or elegant website I think you should research something related to a website basically such as web hosting, domain name, content, etc. These definitions are so easy to understand. You can know all of them fully after reading this article.

Nowaday, some clients want to have a free website and make it easily, they can use services from Wordpress.com, Google site or blogspot.com. But because of limited features, many others choose another way – using service of web hosting providers. So, what is web hosting?

What is web hosting?

Web hosting is a place where we use to store our data of website such as: document, pictures or videos. Thank to web hosting, all of people who use Internet can access and see our website and its content as well.

We need to go back the history to figure out why we have to use web hosting if we want to have a website.

In the past, when we started using computer, we wanted to save our pictures or documents in the computer. But we also want to share all of them to our friends who live far from us. We cannot bring our computer to their positions to show so what did we do?

We connected our computer to the Internet to upload our data on. But we cannot upload them into the air we need something to store and all people can access no matter where or who they are. Server was born. Server is nearly an enormous computer with a strong cable so that although many users access it, it still runs fast.

Are you wonder who own server? Well, the server is so expensive that only large companies can afford. As a result, many large companies or corporations usually built their own server’s system but other websites’ owners need providers of server. Thus, server providers are spring up like mushroom nowadays.

Web hosting has got functions like server but it’s much smaller. If we supposed server is a big house, web hosting is a room of the house. This house also stores data but it contains not too much.

So now, you can understand what web hosting is. But you don’t know which the best web hosting provider is now. Let’s discover it in next article by the name of “Which is the best web hosting provider now?”

What is domain name?

Concerning domain name, it’s so easy to understand.

If your web hosting is a room, your domain name is the name of that room. Because lots of rooms, we need name to recognize them.

Indeed, there are a lot of websites now. According to WorldWildWebSize.com, at least 0.25 billion website indexed (Tuesday, November 11, 2014). If we don’t have name for each website we will make a mess. Domain name is our solution. It looks like these: supportcoupon.com, google.com, yahoo.com, etc. Let’s type domain name into link spaces on Internet browser then press ENTER to access all data of that site.

You have to register a domain name to add it into your web hosting. Plus, nowadays, an organization by the name of ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was born which protect registered domain far from other people.

Nowadays, GoDaddy is the largest domain name registrar with 58 million domains under management.

In Wikipedia.com wrote: “Of the registrars who initially entered the market, many have continued to grow and outpace rivals. Go Daddy is the largest registrar. Other successful registrars include eNom, Tucows, Melbourne IT. Registrars who initially led the market but later were surpassed by rivals include Network Solutions and Dotster.”

In short, to build a new website, you just need to buy a domain name and a web hosting and enjoy it. You will be surprised if lots of people visit it and read your content. Now, if you have a wonderful website with a nice content that lots of visitors everyday you will not imagine how much money you can earn. You will be a rich person soon. Let’s try with Google Adsense because many famous websites always use this to earn money. Good luck to you!