What Is Web Hosting and How Does It Relate to Your Domain?
KB-6.3 · 1 min · Updated September 2026
Web hosting is the service that stores your website's actual files and serves them to visitors' browsers; it's a separate thing from domain registration, and separate again from email hosting, even though all three are commonly confused with each other.
Here's the clean way to think about the three pieces: the domain is the name ( yourcompany.com ); web hosting is the server storing and serving your website's files; email hosting is the server handling mail for addresses at that domain. You can mix and match these across different providers entirely.
NameBright's own product is domain registration, DNS management, and email hosting; it doesn't offer a web hosting or website-building product. If you want to build a site at your NameBright domain, you'll need a separate web hosting provider, and you'll point your domain's DNS records at that provider.