The boom in the digital world opens opportunities for businesses to connect with their target audience. The Internet provides the freedom to earn money by creating blogs, e-stores, and business websites. In this modern time, almost all the people heard about the website. But the majority don’t know how does a website work and what’s the need for web hosting. These tech-related elements are often difficult to explain in an easy way to a non-technical person. This is the reason many fails to use their website progressively.

The website you create can give uncountable benefits, including the money you crave for. But before launching your site, you must need to know how website works. Here, by reading this blog, you will know about web hosting and website functionality in an easy way.

How Does a Website Work?

Web hosting and websites are interlinked with each other. The absence of any one element ultimately makes the other one useless. Now before addressing the first part, lets first come towards the second part. The term “Website” means the collective web pages or a single web page located under a single domain name published on one web server. In the common term, the website is the house you create in a digital world. But what are domain name and web server?

• The web server is an internet-connected computer that loads the web page as soon as it receives the browser’s request.
• The browser is the bridge that connects your computer to the webserver through an IP address obtained through your domain. However, this is an automated process, so you don’t need to worry about this issue.

To make it easy for you, let’s relate all these technical terms into the real-world elements. A domain name is the address of your house (website), while the webserver is the land where you constructed your home. Please don’t get confused on the web pages; they are the floors of your house. At the same time, the content is the furniture that provides an aesthetic outlook. But how does your website works?

Three significant elements enable your website to work. What are they? Let’s explore.

1. Creating a Website:

To display your objectives, contents, or products on the Internet, you need to create a website. If you go through any website, you will find different layouts, web pages such as About Us, Home, Contact Us, Images, and the text. These all are the elements that combine together to form a website. A website can be of a single page or thousands of pages stored in a web server.

But how to create a website? following are the top elements that enable you to create a website:

• Use website builders to create websites without any technical knowledge. Just open your web browser, type free website builders’ login or sign up on any of them, and start creating your own website.
• For a technical website, read blogs, or watch YouTube videos.
• Use WordPress (Content Management System) to manage your website without any technical hurdles.

2. Domain Name:

A domain name is a particular address, similar to a business name that is assigned to your website. Without a domain, you cannot launch your website. The domain is the group of the letter or numbers you particularly decide to put on your website. For instance, in hostbreak.com, Hostbreak is the domain name assigned to the website.

So when you type Hostbreak on your web browser, it will only identify the one particular Hostbreak site. This enables your visitors and users to find you easily.

3. Web Server:

Consider the web server as a legal land for your website. No matter how much stunning website you build, no one can view your site if you aren’t connected to a web server. This is the reason, connecting with a web server is essential. A web server’s work is to store your website, and when someone clicks on the link (domain name) of your site, it loads the website for them.

What Is Web Hosting & Why You Need One?

As you have read about the website element that enables your website to work, let’s address the first part of the question. Why you need web hosting? Before going towards the question, understand what web hosting is. Web hosting is the place where you store all your website files & domain name. The files and documents are stored in a remote web server operated by the web host.

In simple terms, web hosting enables your website to go live to view your website. You rented the space on a remote computer by providing monthly installments or yearly charges. Then, your web host turns your website live on the Internet. For any specific changes, the hosting provider provides you the virtual access through the control panel.  The prior types of web hosting are as follows.

• Shared hosting: Where your web server is shared with different other websites.
• Dedicated Hosting: This means you rented out the entire server to make your website visible.
• Cloud Hosting: This is a virtual (online) server interlinked with many other physical web servers. It provides more privacy, reduces downtime (offline website timing), and provides more resources.