{"id":20,"date":"2025-01-09T02:07:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-01-16T21:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T05:14:43","slug":"how-is-a-domain-name-different-from-web-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/20\/how-is-a-domain-name-different-from-web-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"How is a domain name different from web hosting?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/website-domain-names-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Website domain names\" class=\"wp-image-21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/website-domain-names-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/website-domain-names-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/website-domain-names-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/website-domain-names-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/website-domain-names-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Domain names and internet concept<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Domain Name:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What it is:<\/strong> Your website&#8217;s unique address on the internet, i.e. choosewebsitebuilder.com<br><strong>Analogy:<\/strong> Like your home&#8217;s street address.<br><strong>Function:<\/strong> Allows people to find and access your website by typing it into their web browser. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/web-hosting.png\" alt=\"Web Hosting\" class=\"wp-image-22\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/web-hosting.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/web-hosting-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-content\/uploads\/web-hosting-768x572.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Web Hosting:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What it is:<\/strong> A service that provides space on a server for your website&#8217;s files (like HTML, images, and scripts). &nbsp;<br><strong>Analogy:<\/strong> Like the actual house where you live.<br><strong>Function:<\/strong> Stores all the components that make up your website and makes it accessible to visitors. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In simpler terms:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You need a <strong>domain name<\/strong> to give your website an address people can remember. &nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You need <strong>web hosting<\/strong> to actually store your website&#8217;s files and make it visible on the internet. &nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Think of it this way:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You buy a piece of land (<strong>domain name<\/strong>).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You build a house on that land (<strong>web hosting<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You can&#8217;t have a house without land, and you can&#8217;t have a website accessible on the internet without both a domain name and web hosting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domain Name: What it is: Your website&#8217;s unique address on the internet, i.e. choosewebsitebuilder.comAnalogy: Like your home&#8217;s street address.Function: Allows people to find and access your website by typing it into their web browser. &nbsp; Web Hosting: What it is: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/20\/how-is-a-domain-name-different-from-web-hosting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1653],"tags":[1654,1656,1655],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-helpful-tips","tag-domain-name","tag-domain-name-vs-web-hosting","tag-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.choosewebsitebuilder.com\/guides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}