Whether someone is trying to publish a blog or setup a website for your company, he will inevitably encounter the term "hosting." If it's the first time he's encountered the term, it may be a little perplexing. No, this kind of "hosting" doesn't involve having people over for dinner. And, no, etiquette does not require you to present yourself at someone's door with a bottle of wine in order get your content published. This will be obvious if you've gotten this far, but the point here trying to make is that even if someone consider himself to be fairly internet savvy, he might still find coming up with a simple web hosting definition to be a tricky task and he needs to begin by asking the right questions.
When someone log onto a website, his browser downloads data in order to compile the presentation of the content he actually see displayed. For that to happen, the data had to be waiting somewhere, ready to be accessed by surfers. That "somewhere" can be pretty much anywhere as long as the site's domain name is correctly associated with the IP address of the server where the data is stored. To make a long story short, a "web host" is a system setup to store a website, all its data and files, and make everything accessible over the Internet using the appropriate software. A "web hosting service" is a product comprising the servers, software and technical expertise required to operate and maintain a fully-functional website, letting the users concentrate on the content they want to publish. However, any comprehensive web hosting definition will need to go into a little more detail.
When someone log onto a website, his browser downloads data in order to compile the presentation of the content he actually see displayed. For that to happen, the data had to be waiting somewhere, ready to be accessed by surfers. That "somewhere" can be pretty much anywhere as long as the site's domain name is correctly associated with the IP address of the server where the data is stored. To make a long story short, a "web host" is a system setup to store a website, all its data and files, and make everything accessible over the Internet using the appropriate software. A "web hosting service" is a product comprising the servers, software and technical expertise required to operate and maintain a fully-functional website, letting the users concentrate on the content they want to publish. However, any comprehensive web hosting definition will need to go into a little more detail.
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