Web hosting

What is Web Hosting

What exactly is web hosting?- in a nutshell, web hosting is a like a folder or directory on your on your computer, except it's on a computer that's connected to the Web 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And anyone on the web can read what you put in it. To use a web host, you put yourt you r files in your space on the web host. Vistors can find your files by going to your web address (called a URL) When a vistor makes a request to your URL, a web server "hears" that request and gets the files from the disk where your website lives , and shows them to the visitor. If you want to creat a simple web page, or build a massive web store like Amazon's, you need web hosting.You build your pages using a web language like HTML, build your scripts (programs) using a sever language like PERL or C#, and then you upload everything to your web host, tweak some values for your scripts (if you have scripts) and voila...your live.(That's a very, very simplified answer.)

Web hosting comes in different shapes and sizes.Which flavor is best for you depends on what you are trying to do; on what your "application" is. The major categories are :Shared Web Hosting, Virtual private Hosting and Dedicated Hosting.