title: What is the purpose/benefit of using the hostsupdater plugin for Vagrant?
body: <p>So I'm new to using Vagrant, Homestead, and Laravel. I was introduced to it last week at a new job and now feel comfortable enough to use it at home. At work, the hostsupdater plugin is used, and to be honest I'm not sure exactly what it does. As I go about installing Homestead and Laravel on my home machine (Windows 8.1), I would like to know why this plugin is so beneficial that it is used almost everywhere. I guess in an explain like I'm five way, since I am also new to web development. Is it just allowing me to connect to the web server on the vm through my host machine's browser?</p>