Domain & Hosting

If you are a beginner and starting your own personal blog or online business you might have heard that you need a domain name and hosting for your website. Every website that you visit consists of two main elements, first one a domain name and second one a web server.

A domain name is a identifier for a website. A recognizable domain name will make it easier for people to discover your website and will improve your branding. Alternatively, a domain name is the equivalent of a physical address for your website. It helps users to discover your website more easier instead of its internet protocol (IP) address.

When you enter a domain name into a web browser, it sends a request to the domain name system, also known as DNS servers. The DNS server then goes through all registered IP addresses and connects that domain to the needed one. Example as here, in “digiking.tech,” where digiking is the name of a website and “tech” is a domain name extension. 

So we are able to choose our desired domain name and extension from a domain name registrar or hosting provider. but it’s worth nothing that it’s only possible to register an existing domain name with the valid domain extension that other people or businesses don’t already own.

there are different types of domain but lets look for the most common ones such as :

1. Top Level Domain (TLD)

refers to a domain name’s suffix or final part. There is a limited set of predefined suffixes available, which includes:

.com – commercial enterprise (the most common TLD), .org stands for organisations (typically, nonprofit), .gov represents government agencies, .edu represents educational institutions, .net represents network organisations, and.mil represents the military.

TLDs are further sub divided into two types of TLDs: 

a) Country Code Top Level Domain (CCTLD) refers, the domain class it is associated with (.com, .org, .edu, etc).
b)  Generic Top Level Domain(GTLD) refers, two-letter domain extension, such as .in, .uk or .fr, assigned to a country, geographic location or territory.

A Hosting or Web hosting is a service that enables users to access your website’s assets on a webserver, and make them available to anybody with an internet connection. Shared hosting is one of the many forms of hosting accessible; it makes use of shared server resources. The more popular a website grows, the more resources it will demand to function properly.

Here below are the most common types of hosting:

Shared hosting, it involves a number of websites hosted on the same server, with each user receiving a specific amount of storage and resources. Shared solutions are typically the greatest alternative for newbies and influencers since it is the most cost-effective.

VPS hosting, the next level of web host is a private virtual server (VPS). It makes use of more powerful hardware to emulate virtual server instances on the same hardware.

If you need more server processing power, Cloud hosting may be appropriate for you. You can rely on your website to be up and operating at all times since cloud hosting uses numerous interconnected servers that take over from one another if necessary.

You may change or upgrade your hosting package as needed with your hosting providers so you can start with a basic Shared web hosting plan and then migrate to a cloud or VPS hosting plan.

WordPress hosting is designed specifically for WordPress as your content management system. There are two types of WordPress hosting available from companies. WordPress hosting that is shared, and WordPress hosting that is managed.
Shared WordPress hosting functions similarly to ordinary shared hosting, with the exception that WordPress may be pre-installed. Managed WordPress hosting offers additional benefits such as improved security, server caching, staging, and quicker loading times.

Dedicated hosting servers are widely regarded as the finest option for web hosting. That’s because you have a dedicated server that’s entirely yours. Dedicated hosting often provides additional benefits such as increased uptime and quicker speeds.