Hosting

 

What is hosting???

Web host­ing is a ser­vice which allo­cates space for cus­tomers to show­case their web­sites on com­puter servers that are con­nected to the Inter­net 24/7.

Servers are pow­er­ful com­put­ers that have extremely large hard dri­ves, or an array of hard dri­ves. Space is then rented to those who want a “web­site pres­ence” on the Internet.

Every server on the Inter­net has a unique numer­i­cal IP (Inter­net Pro­to­col) address. You can think of servers as apart­ment build­ings with unique addresses. Each apart­ment unit within each build­ing is equiv­o­cal to space rented out for indi­vid­ual web­sites. And like real apart­ment build­ings, each unit also has an address based on “the build­ing” in which it is located.

When you rent a space on a server then, you’re set­ting up house on the Inter­net. You can be reached by a unique address (the web­site address), which is based on the server’s address.

 

 

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