The domain – a name of the website and its address on the Internet. The hosting is a place where the website "lives". Both services paid also give to the client an opportunity to normally work and protect the resource from cracking, spam and other troubles.
Every day the wide area network expands the opportunities more and more and sucks in increasing number of users in the web. The average citizen, driving in the name of the website into a line of the searcher, can not "confuse" himself with how he will come to the page necessary to it, the main thing is that it will get there where it is necessary. However the owner of this found resource performed huge work that the user could find information interesting him. First of all it registered the website to a certain address and provided it the place in the local area network.
What is domains
The domain is the address of network connection which identifies the owner of the website. It can consist of letters, words, digits, a dash and their combinations. Two parts are a part of the domain: left includes his name, and right - a domain zone in which this address is registered. Among themselves they are separated by a point. For example, in the possible domain blog.ru the word blog is a domain name, and the word ru indicates a domain zone in which it is registered. Each of millions of computers entering into the Internet have own unique domain address. Its components are called segments which form a hierarchical system.
Still quite recently there was only a thematic system. In this system the top-level domain (latest right segment) designated belonging of the owner of the address to a certain class. For example, "" .com"" – commercial, "" .net"" – network, etc. Now practically in all these zones it is possible to register resources of any subject. As it was already told, the domain indicates also the country in which it is registered and also the city, the state and other geographical division. However most often right after a top-level domain the segment designating the organization or firm to which it belongs follows. For example, the domain company.info is decrypted as information Company.
What is a hosting
Hosting – service in providing processing power for placement of information on the server. That is actually the hosting is the place where files of the client are placed. The organization of the place on the hard drive at hosting provider is necessary for the owner of the website in order that million Internet users could find and visit its resource. As a rule, the service of a hosting includes providing the place for mail correspondence, DNS, databases, file storage, etc.
Without such service the Internet just could not exist and develop normally as webmasters would have be no place to place the websites. The concept a "virtual" hosting means that the provider provides to the client not all server but only its certain part and is specified by a limit of use of random access memory and the CPU. When pricing for this service not only the occupied disk space, but also the number of domains and subdomains on the account, traffic, the software, etc. is considered. A hosting and the domain – the concepts rented. For example, it is possible to buy the domain at least for one year, and a hosting for a month. At the same time the spent money will pay for itself stable work of a resource, its "recognition" in network and reliable protection against cracking, spam and other troubles.