Difference between Domain and webhosting?

Discussion in 'Domain Names' started by anna14334, Jul 12, 2009.

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    Hi guys , I am new to this stuff. So please forgive me and answer this stupid question . What is Difference between Domain and webhosting? I am an active blogger , but I don't understand these domain things. I recently went through posts named PR5 , PR4 ,PR domains .What are those PR's? What should we do after buying a domain.
     
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  2. markiliz

    markiliz Active Member

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    Imagine this...hosting is your house and domain is your home address.
    Hosting is where your blog and files reside while domain is where people are going to find them.

    PR is short for page rank, a system by Google for the value of your blog. The higher the number, the better. You don't really have to worry about PR if you don't monetize the blog.

    If you're on blogspot or wordpress.com, you can use the domain to point to your old blog or you can migrate them to a new hosting.Google around on benefits of having your own hosting. Good luck :)
     
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    Nice explaination markiliz ..
     
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  4. root@localhost

    root@localhost Peon

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    i like your explanation markiliz. this analogy i never heard before....
    thank you so much. i can use this analogy in the future :)
     
    root@localhost, Jul 15, 2009 IP
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    domain name is identity of you on internet. when we hit a domain name in address bar in a browser than first it looking for that TLd registarar and if domain registry find there than looking for host to open default or index file.
     
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    Your files put up on a server for serving others = Hosting
    The name identifying that computer on internet thru an (imaginary)pointer = Domain

    nb.
     
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  7. markiliz

    markiliz Active Member

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    thanks ! :)

    just trying to make it sound as simple as it can for anna... :D
     
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    biggunn Active Member

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    Web Hosting is the server space that you least to have all your web site files. A domain is your blahblahblah.com or blahblahblah.net.
     
    biggunn, Jul 16, 2009 IP
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    you may own a domain and simply do nothing, you may own and park it (try to monetize through advertisement), you may own and develop it (like you did with you blog). owning a domain name are the fundamentals :)
     
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    Hey thanks markiliz. I really understood the difference. Now if I own a domain. can I create site a wordpress blog tools. Without any redirecting.
     
    anna14334, Jul 17, 2009 IP
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    markiliz Active Member

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    i don't really understand what you mean but i'll try to answer it.

    so if you bought a domain, let's say anna.com. there are 2 ways you can do use it

    1) point your new domain, anna.com to the wordpress.com URL. you can do that by going to the upgrades section in your dashboard. so you're still using the wordpress.com account with anna.com domain. so people can use your old *.wordpress.com or anna.com, it's the same.

    2) if you bought a domain along with hosting, you can install wordpress on your hosting and you can keep it to yourself and use anna.com to access it. you can export your old blog content from wordpress.com and import it into your new wordpress blog at the hosting.

    it's not really complicated and quite straight forward actually. but first timers might have problem in the configs :)
     
    markiliz, Jul 17, 2009 IP