what is domain hosting in a simple explanation. Domain Hosting is one form of service whose usage is by way of subscription. Domain is an internet address, while hosting is where you keep your website files. Domain is the home address, and hosting is the land to build a house. Content from the website is material and building on the land. No address then your website will never be reached by internet users. Without hosting, my website also can not do anything because the land is not there. Unlike the real world, where roads and land are always down, the virtual world provides roads and land from all directions and can be said to be unlimited. But on the technical side, the domain name actually aims to facilitate users in accessing the website, because users can access through public IP address of a website. In the case of domain and hosting providers, the government has arranged it under the auspices of Pandi.id, especially for domain with extension / extension ID, (id, web.id, co.id, or.id, etc.). While an international domain other than ID, we can rent in any domain provider.
While hosting is more flexible, but for hosting in Indonesia there are usually rules that restrict hosting. For example not allowed for sites that violate the law, gambling, pornography, violence, scam and others. Okay, actually my friend does not have to hire or subscribe to domains and hosting, but on condition, my friend also has resources in setting up, operating and maintaining system, server and network for domain and hosting. In fact my friend can be a domain and hosting provider. But keep in mind, the operational costs of domain and hosting providers are not cheap, even very expensive. Most domain and hosting providers are resellers, meaning they do not have their own resources. Only a few actually have their own resources, ranging from human labor, servers, networks etc. To date, some hosting providers have changed their service marketing system. If the first friend in addition to renting hosting, my friend must rent a domain as well, so now you can have a hosting and get a free domain. Actually this is just manipulation. The hosting provider decreases the profit of hosting or does not take profit from the domain rental service. Because of the advantages of domain rental services, it is not much more than the benefits of hosting services. The price of hosting as well as domain, the point is like that. But if you really want a free service with a good (quality and service tend to be more expensive than the cost of goods), my friend can use a free blog provider quality like blogspot or wordpress blog.