Unlock the Mystery: Domain vs. Hosting – Which One Holds the Key to Your Online Kingdom?
Every website lives on a physical server, or a computer connected to the internet. That server has a unique address, called an IP address, which looks something like this: 192.0.2.1. You can think of it like the street address for a website; just like you need an address to send someone a letter, your browser needs an IP address to find and load a website.
But since strings of numbers aren’t easy to remember, we use domain names instead—a simple, human-friendly shortcut that points to the website’s IP address behind the scenes. So when you type in a name like wordpress.com, your browser uses that to look up the correct IP address and bring you to the right website.
