What is the difference between webhosting and domain?

Question

I want to buy a domain. Is there any way I can buy it by myself, and not through companies (I have heard about frauds) and do I need to buy or rent webhosting space even if I have a FTP software and desgning my website by Microsoft Publisher?

Answer 1

> What is the difference between webhosting and domain?



Web hosting is where you have a computer with disk space, an Internet connection and the software needed to respond to requests for the files the make up webpages.



A domain is a way to describe where that computer can be found in a human friendly way.



> Is there any way I can buy it by myself, and

> not through companies (I have heard about frauds)



You can go directly to some domain registration authorities - but they charge a very high price for individual domains. (e.g. £100 instead of £15). So it is a bad idea.



> do I need to buy or rent webhosting space



Yes. You clearly don't have the technical skills to run your own server



> even if I have a FTP software



This just lets you copy files to your web hosting space (although I'd prefer to use one which supports SFTP, plain FTP is horribly insecure)



> desgning my website by Microsoft Publisher?



MS Publish is a dreadful program for producing webpages. It produces some of the very worst quality code I've encountered - its inflexible and reacts very horrible to real world browsers.



http://opera.com/wsc/ is a better starting point then Publisher.

Answer 2

A domain is just a name.

Webhosting is what gives you space on a web-server.



Add the two together and you have a website under your domain name.



If you don't rent web-hosting space then you will only have rights to the name - but no actual web space to put anything in.



I use www.1and1.co.uk for my webhosting.



Sure there are rip-offs in all walks of life but you can't get anywhere without a hosting package. Just get a recommendation.

Answer 3

U can buy web space there are lots of web host service provider ( example yahoo.com) who provide some space to publish there website and charge some fund for that. But yes before investing money online one should get all the information that service provider is genuine or not. Their are lots of fraud website who promise for good service and steal money form people.



Domain is something to do with name. organization need to register to domain name service provider. all website address are in the form of e.g., 225.299.215.254. And it's very difficult to remember the series of number and type every time we visit particular website. so, for that reason website buy their name like yahoo.com. so it ll be very easy to remember and recall it.

Answer 4

Domain is just a name, by itself it doesn't do anything. You cannot 'register it yourself', it is always done through accredited registrar, so one company or another is always involved.



Web-hosting is a set of services: like disk space, internet bandwidth, possibility to access via web browser, possibility to connect via ftp client and (many) others. This is where you point your domain to.



If you are concerned about fraud I could recomment using value-dns.com ; it has everything you need to start running your website almost instantly, and it never failed me even once.

Answer 5

WebHosting is

"A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own website "



Domain is



"In computing and telecommunication in general, a domain is a sphere of knowledge identified by a name"

Answer 6

Domain is the url or uniform resource locater such as "yahoo.com" It allows you to visit websites without remembering the ip.



Web hosting is a service that allows you to upload your website files to a server hosted in a data center that allows anyone with an internet connection to view the site.



For domains I recoomend http://dynadot.com and for hosting I recommend http://speedycrow.com