You should have known about domain, shouldn’t you? But you also should know that a website or blog not only needs a domain but also hosting. A brief about hosting, say you are going to establish a home business, e.g. a bookstore, and you are planning to use a home as the place to sell books. Of course, you have to buy a home from a seller that provides a housing complex. So, in this parable, a Bookstore can be likened as a Website or Blog, Home can be likened as Domain and the Housing Complex can be likened as Hosting Service. Now, let’s see how people can find your bookstore when they want to buy a book from you.
Although you have claimed a name for your bookstore (website name, e.g.How To In Blogger), people will never find it without a place at where you can display and sell your books (Domain, e.g. howtoinblogger.com). And you will need a housing complex to hire or buy one of places or homes provided. Or say, to locate your bookstore, you need a housing complex. So, Hosting can be said as Housing for Websites or Blogs.
Hosting service provides spaces to store your website including its applications, images, texts, and other components of a website. To establish a web hosting or website hosting or webhosting, you will need very expensive tools and equipment. Of course, you will freely store or host any website or blog that you desire if you have a web hosting service even you can sell spaces to other people. Anyway, those who have more money, this is a big opportunity to earn more money. They can establish a web hosting service and sell spaces for websites or blogs that need hosting service. For example, you may have known several hosting companies called hostgator.com, bluehost.com, mediatemple.net, etc, which are web hosts. Along with the advancement of hosting industry, you will find many terms related to web hosting, e.g. Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, Dedicated Hosting, and more.
Free Webhosting
In addition to self web hosting, there is also free webhosting with a consequence that brings advantages and disadvantages between the two webhosting. The following are free webhosting providers:
- http://www.000webhost.com
- http://www.phpnet.us
- http://0000free.com
- etc
The above webhosting providers allow you to install any application such as installing wordpress, joomla, drupal, and more. In addition, there are also free webhosting services that only allow you to use their own applications, e.g. blogger.com.
For a brief about hosting is enough. See you in the next posts.
