What Is Website Hosting? 0
If you’re reading this article you’re probably thinking about building your first website, or maybe you’re just wonding what’s this term you find in almost any web development realated page.
Well, this article will clear all your doubts.
Web hosting is a service that makes your website accessible on the web.
Your web hosting provider gives you permission to use a portion of the resources of a web server (but in some cases complex configurations can split your website on several mirrored servers) so that your website is surfable from anywhere in the world.
This description is extremely generic, in fact the term web hosting is applied to a number of services.
A very basic web hosting service makes your website available to the public in a static mode, made of its static pages and files.