What is web hosting?
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
A basic website is just a collection of files. They often include photo files (usually jpeg) and web pages (often html), as well as many others. When you visit a website with your computer, the files are downloaded from a remote computer to your computer so you can see them. The remote computer, which could be located anywhere in the world, hosts these files and serves them upon request. The recurring hosting fee that you pay when you have a website is effectively rental for the space that your website occupies on the host computer.