What is the difference between a domain name and web hosting?

I want to get my own website up and running, so I went to look at prices around the place... I found a good site which has domain names at $11/year, but I'm confusing myself because I'm not sure of the difference between a domain name and web hosting - I want quite a lot of space, and I will use Frontpage to make my site because that also has an upload facility attached, so I just need the domain name right?





However, I cant see anything about how much space I get when I buy a domain name, so this makes me think I need to get web hosting.... please help!!





Thanks :)

What is the difference between a domain name and web hosting?
Go to "https://www.godaddy.com" you can get both for $8.95 a year and lower. Depending on what you want and need. They support Frontpage.





A domain name works like an address forwarding service.





All of your Web site content sits on a computer with a unique address. This is called an IP address. An IP address is made up of a series of numbers, such as 123.23.234.45. Your domain name directs visitors to your site using this IP address.





We use domain names instead of IP addresses because most people find it easier to remember a name rather than a series of numbers.





In order to choose the right hosting plan, you’ll need to consider a few things:





Design


How was your Web site designed? For example, if you designed an ASP or ASP.NET Web site, you'll need to find a Windows hosting plan. If you have a Web site that uses CGI or PHP, you'll need to get a Linux hosting plan.





Traffic


How much traffic or how many visitors do you expect monthly? The more visitors or traffic you expect on your site, the higher the bandwidth you will need.





Size


How large is your site? If you're planning on having a large site with a lot of multimedia content, you'll probably need additional disk space.





Hope this helps.
Reply:A domain name converts an IP address to a human readable format. An IP address is an address all the computers on the internet have so they can transfer information. You can find your own at www.ipchicken.com. (Whose IP address happens to be harder to remember: 209.68.27.16.) A web host is a computer somewhere in the world that runs all day and night and runs a website for you. So a domain name is a name to access a website. a webhost is the actual computer that keeps the website running.
Reply:Go to http://www.LocoDomains.com get a domain for $6.95 and add hosting which you need, web hosting is server space to upload your files.
Reply:A domain name is the www.yoursitename.com and web hosting is the comany that will host that domain name and give you space to put your website up onto the World Wide Web and allow people to access and view your website.





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Reply:How to List a Domain Name





There are two principal steps to make your website on the internet and registering/booking a domain name is the number one.


A domain name builds the address of your site and can end in . com, . net, . org, . info, . us, . biz, . tv and further.





Directly afer you have registered your name, you will pick a web host (2nd step). The web host is the guts of any website as this is where you build and publish your pages, build purchase fillings, insert service and preserve your site.





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Reply:When you buy a domain name, it is just reserving the name so noone else can use it. For example, if you decided to buy widgitdesigns.com, then noone else can. But theres no way to put files on it.





Web Hosting, is a company who will let you use their computers to store all of your files for your domain name.





Lets say NetworkSolutions is hosting your website. When you type widgitdesigns.com it will know to access networksolutions, and look for index.html and the rest of your files.