What is Website Hosting?

By Joshua Zamora


Before you buy web hosting it is important to understand what precisely it is and what it does. A web hosting service gives a service that allows people and businesses to post web pages to the web. A web-hosting service provider sells or for free (with ads on the internet page) is an enterprise that supplies the servers and technologies to view web-sites on the internet.

Website hosting services are services that customers can utilise after they have purchased monthly dial up or broadband services that allow them access to the web. Web hosting services use hosting and customer architecture to load content to the server so web pages and information can be viewed on the web in its original HTML format.

A web hosting company will offer clients access to a server that will give the clients ' content to people on the Internet after they make a URL or domain name request. To view pages on the internet, you must have a net browser, for example Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator to request the net page from the server after you have purchased web access.

Sites are pages that are stored on a PC called a server. The server is part of a net of PCs online or Web that permits users of the web to reach your site anywhere in the world at anytime. The internet is open 24 hours, seven days a week around the clock.

Host computers are configured so that when your URL or domain name is typed in, the address will utilize a pointer routine (look for the address from terminal to terminal) till it reaches the PC that hosts your web-site. Then, if all is OK, your internet site should display itself on the users screen.

Hosting companies insist that you get your URL or site name first before you buy hosting services. Most hosting firms have a package that will allow you to buy the domain name and hosting at the same time.




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