{"id":1043,"date":"2025-12-29T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T07:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/?post_type=manual_kb&#038;p=1043"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:56:19","slug":"what-is-web-hosting","status":"publish","type":"manual_kb","link":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/knowledgebase\/what-is-web-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"What is web hosting?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"translation-block translation-block-merged\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Web hosting is a service that provides the server infrastructure required to make a website accessible on the internet. When you publish a website, its files, databases, and email data are stored on a server \u2014 hosting is what keeps that server running and connected to the network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What hosting includes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n<div id=\"mybox-1459915350\" class=\"mybox-content mybox-entity-placement\"><div class=\"early-access-banner-inpost\">\r\n  <div class=\"banner-left-inpost\">\r\n    <div class=\"icon-box-inpost\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/square-info-icon.svg\" alt=\"Info\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"text-box-inpost\">\r\n      <span class=\"label-inpost\"><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Early access<\/span><\/span>\r\n      <h4><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Still need help?<\/span><\/h4>\r\n      <p><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Contact our customer service team.<\/span><\/p>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"banner-right-inpost\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/panel.mybox.com\/helpdesk2\/v\/list\/\" class=\"banner-button-inpost\"><span class=\"translation-block translation-block-banner-text\">Message us<\/span><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"translation-block translation-block-merged\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hosting environment typically provides space and resources for three core components:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Website files<\/strong> \u2014 the code, images, and content that make up your site<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Databases<\/strong> \u2014 where your website stores dynamic data such as posts, products, or user accounts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Email<\/strong> \u2014 mailboxes associated with your domain<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At mybox, each of these components runs on separate server infrastructure \u2014 websites, databases, and email are handled independently. This improves performance and stability across all three services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hosting \u2260 Domain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hosting and a domain are two separate services that work together. Hosting provides the server environment where your website lives. A domain is the address (e.g. yoursite.com) that points visitors to that environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can use hosting without a domain, and you can own a domain without hosting \u2014 but you need both to run a publicly accessible website. <a href=\"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/knowledgebase\/what-is-the-difference-between-a-domain-and-a-website-and-a-web-server\/\">Learn more about the difference between a domain and hosting<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>How mybox hosting works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In traditional hosting models, users choose predefined plans with fixed resource limits. If a website exceeds those limits, the typical solution is to upgrade to a higher plan \u2014 often paying for resources that aren&#8217;t fully needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">mybox uses a modular approach. Each plan is a starting configuration. Resources such as CPU, RAM, storage, or additional services can be expanded independently through add-ons \u2014 without switching plans or migrating data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a full overview of available plans and how they compare, see <a href=\"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/knowledgebase\/comparing-mybox-plans-and-features\/\">Comparing mybox plans and features <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What this means in practice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your hosting environment can grow alongside your project. If you need more storage but not more CPU, you add storage only. If your traffic increases, you add processing power. You adjust what you actually need, when you need it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[25,61],"manual_kb_tag":[288,291,680,700,703,704,724,725,726,727],"class_list":["post-1043","manual_kb","type-manual_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","manualknowledgebasecat-hosting","manualknowledgebasecat-starthere","manual_kb_tag-web-hosting","manual_kb_tag-scalable-hosting","manual_kb_tag-flexible-hosting","manual_kb_tag-shared-hosting","manual_kb_tag-hosting-packages","manual_kb_tag-hosting-plans","manual_kb_tag-hosting-service","manual_kb_tag-hosting-addons","manual_kb_tag-disk-space","manual_kb_tag-server-storage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/1043\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybox.com\/help\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}