Unlocking the Digital Secret: How Your Favorite Website Magically Goes Live
Your unique domain name (like yourgroovydomain.com) is what someone needs to type into their browser to get to your website. But without web hosting, your domain name wouldn’t have any website content to display. Think of your domain as the address and your hosting as the house where everything lives.
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We dive deeper into the difference between domains and hosting in this guide.
The elements of a web host
Several components interact to deliver your website to users’ computers, including hardware, software, and defined infrastructure. We’ll briefly cover each of these components below.
