When managing your website, it's essential to understand that renewing your domain and renewing your hosting are two separate tasks. Though both are vital for keeping your website online, they serve different purposes and are billed independently.
✅ What is a Domain?
A domain (like yourcompany.com) is your website's address on the internet. You register this name through a domain registrar, and it must be renewed annually (or for multiple years) to keep ownership.
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Renewing a domain ensures that your web address remains yours.
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If your domain expires, your website and email addresses linked to that domain will stop working, and someone else could register it.
✅ What is Hosting?
Web hosting is the service that stores your website's files and makes them accessible online. It’s like renting space on a server to keep your website running.
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Renewing hosting ensures your website files remain online and accessible.
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If hosting expires, even if the domain is active, visitors will see an error or blank page because there’s no website to load.
