In this topic we are going to cover, what is the difference between a domain name, URL, webpage, website, worldwide web and web hosting.
Domain name:
So next, suppose you open your computer browser and type navodayansh.com in the top bar and hit enter. Some new content appears on your computer screen. When you click on below content and if that click hits any link, a new content appears and so on. The Content which pops up on click is the visual display of a data of the browser. This is received from the server. This happens in a relation action related to request to access navodayansh.com. This navodayansh.com is called domain name and the document received is called webpage. There are lot many domain name providers. The best, popular and reliable platform from where you can consider buying a domain for you is Bluehost.
Web page:
The page which gets open up is written in HTML language which browser can understand. The browser interprets the HTML document and provides you with user-friendly contents on the screen. Note that all web pages are accessed and transported with the help of Hypertext Transfer Protocol or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, i.e. HTTP or HTTPS.
URL:
Webpages which gets created will have a unique address which is called Uniform Resource Locator i.e. URL. This URL consists of:
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
- Fully qualified Domain name
- Directory, and
- Either web page or nothing
WWW:
Here – ‘www’ is the machine name or host name and stand for the World Wide Web. It is mostly optional these days.
Suppose, any domain which is the top-level domain name, and we need to buy it from registrar like Bluehost. Now, in the first URL, server is sending test.html web page to the web browser, but if a URL does not end the extensions like .html, .php, etc.,. Then, the server loads a default file like index.html, index.php etc. In that directory.
For example:
navodayansh.com/index.php and navodayansh.com open the same web page. These URL are linked with specific text or images on the webpage to form hyperlinks. So, on clicking on the image, this hyperlink starts redirecting the page to to the link. This is same link which is configured with it and as a result it shows new web page which would have contents. So, this web page is hyperlinked with these web pages. In all this process, we find there are hyperlinks which are publicly accessible. These links collects information in the form of web pages which is called World Wide Web or simply Web.
Web Hosting:
A collection of hyperlinked web pages sharing a common domain name or Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) is called a website. So, a group of HTML files form a website. If we have to make our website visible in internet all these files such as images, videos, text etc will have to get stored on a very special virtual place. This is called as servers. To keep those files in such place called server, we will actually require some disk spaces from the web hosting companies which provides such space to us. Hence, we will have to buy some disk space. There are many such companies which provides such space called hosting. These companies are called Web Hosts. As suggested above Bluehost is the best platform to buy domain but it’s also best for buying hosting plan.
After purchasing web hosting plan, we upload all files such as images, videos, texts etc on their server. Once its uploaded in the server, the hosting provider starts delivering the required files in the form of website. as and when the server receives the requests from users opening the website through URL. This entire process of providing space and delivering the page in the form of website is called web hosting.
So, to summarise this web hosts provides us space in their server where we store our data. This is stored in the form of hyperlinked information. This is open to be used by anyone who browse the page in the form of URL forming world wide web called completion of entire process where website becomes available to browse. Web pages with common domain name collectively form a website which goes live on the internet with the help of web hosting services.
