Web Hosting and Web Development
Nowadays, there are so many terms to comprehend. With the existence of online world, new jargons are emerging day by day. Web design, web hosting, web development, web creation, web programming, etc. All these jargons will confuse new comers to online world. If you are one of the people who are confused by these terms, don’t be afraid. Let’s discuss the meanings and relationships between them. We’ll also see how they interact and benefit each and another.
The term web design, web development, and web programming have close relationship. All of those activities will be resulted in one goal. The main goal is to create a website. With that in mind, we will understand that the best term to describe the activity is web development.
However, creating a website nowadays is not an easy action. With the advancing of technology, a beautiful website becomes a primary concern. The main drawback of a beautiful website is the loading time. Normally, because the website is enhanced with graphics and animations, the loading time is slow. This is of course will annoy visitors instead of making them interested on the design. Moreover, the definition of beautiful is quite general. Something that is considered beautiful by teenagers will not be so beautiful by elders. Something that is considered beautiful by men will not be so beautiful be women. Thus, because of this complexity, we now have people specialize in creating a beautiful but fast loading website.
Also, with the advancing of technology, website is not only a place to put some texts or pictures. People now could shop in a website, bid in an e-auction, pay with credit card, etc. All of these features need special programming techniques. Thus, we now have people specialize in creating “advanced” website.
As you can see, the term web design and web programming are components for web development. Now, what about web hosting?
Simply put, web hosting is a virtual place to put your website online. What is the meaning of creating a website without publishing it online? With web hosting, this final step is completed.
Back then when internet just started, web development and web hosting are separated. However, nowadays, we could find web hosting providers that also provide a site builder that completes the need of web development. Thus, by renting the hosting, people could also build their own website with the site builder.
The opposite is also true. If you now hire a web development company, they will also offer you to hosting the website with their partners.
With that said, there are web hosting companies that provide a pure template based web builder. This is of course needs some programming skill for the end user. Some web developers also do partnership with unreliable web hosting providers in order to keep the profit high. If you are searching a combination of the world, more often than not, you will be disappointed. Until today, if you are going to build a sophisticated website and host it in a good web hosting provider, you need to search each of them separately.
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