Understanding Hosting and Its Functions

Hosting is a location or media for storing data in the form of text, images or videos. Quoted from Wikipedia, Web hosting is a service for users that is useful for storing information, images, videos and some other content that will be accessed via the website.

Okay, now imagine you are opening a website on a computer or smartphone screen. Have you ever thought where the website is stored? Where exactly are the website images and scripts placed? Well, all the website scripts are stored in a place called Hosting. So, understanding hosting is a location for storing website files in the form of text, images, videos, programming codes and so on. For more details, please read the Complete Web Hosting Guide.

Easier like this, the website is considered as a building. The building will be erected on a land plot which has been plotted to a certain size. Well, this piece of land can be called Hosting. Then what is a domain? Domain is the address of the building (website). Domain will lead visitors to go to a plot of land (hosting), which has been built a building (website).

Then what is the real form of hosting? Hosting is a server with the best technology. Hosting is provided by a hosting service provider such as DomaiNesia. There are several types of hosting services, namely Shared Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Server) and Colocation Server. Usually for standard websites, only use Shared Hosting. While domains are usually in the form of domain names and their extensions. For example my website (dot) com, my website (dot) id and so on. There are various domain extensions such as .COM, .ID, .SPACE, .NET and many more that you can choose from.