You've got your new business all established now and you're ready to take
the next step and set up a website to tell the online world that you're here
and you've got something to offer. You've found a catchy domain name to
call your own and now... what next? Well, the answer is that you need to
find web hosting for the website you're going to build. So what does that
mean and how do you figure out what kind of web hosting you need? First
let's start with the basics.
Just what is web hosting anyway?
In simple terms, web hosting is renting space on a web server. A website is
not simply a domain name, it is a collection of files linked together by
HTML code to display text and graphics on a computer. In order for
anybody to see this collection of files you've created, it has to be housed
on a computer somewhere that has access to the internet. Not just any
computer will do, of course. A web server is a computer set up with special
software that allows it to receive requests from the internet for the website
files it has stored on it and to send those files out over the internet so that
the requesting computer can display them. It is very much like a waiter in
a restaurant taking your order and bringing the food that you ask for from
the kitchen, hence the name "server."
Along with making sure your files can be seen by internet users around the
world, a web server provides other important services as well. First and
foremost is the ability to create email addresses based on your domain
name and to send and receive email with them. The web server also has
various types of software installed on it that allow your website to run
programs, create and manage databases, display video, and many other
functions you might find useful. Almost any type of computer can function
as a web server, but it's the software that's on it that makes it a server.
When you buy webhosting, the monthly fee you pay goes to the continued
maintenance and upgrading of the server's hardware and software, the cost
of keeping it online 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in a secure data center
with a fast and powerful internet connection, and to pay for the expertise
of the people who do all that work. It is completely possible to turn your
own home or office computer into a web server if you really want to, but
in most cases it is far more economical to pay someone else who is
dedicated to providing this service in a properly reliable manner than it is
to try and do it yourself.
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