What is Web Hosting?
April 25, 2008 – 1:41 pmEvery website needs a home. For a web site to be available on the Internet, it has to be hosted on a web server. This is where web hosting comes in. Web hosting is a service that provides individuals, companies and users with online systems for storing pages, images, videos, or any content accessible via the Web. There are plenty of companies, like ourselves, known as web hosts or web hosting providers that provide these services. Web Hosting providers setup and manage web servers that are located in large purpose built Datacenters, mostly situated in major towns and cities around the world link to the ‘hubs’ of the internet. Users upload their web pages to these servers so their websites can viewed by people from anywhere in the world. To access a website people need to know the ‘domain name’ of the site e.g. microsoft.com, apple.com, netmotivated.co.uk etc. When you type a ...