What is a Web Host?

I'm quite sure that many web hosting industry professionals would love tell you that they work in one of the most complex industries around that they might be right. In order to define a web host the various ways of hosting your web site need to be briefly explained along with a couple of short analogies that will help you to understand.

Let me start off by saying that I don't want to insult your intelligence. The reader of this article will be someone that is fresh on the Internet or has simply been browsing a few web sites and checks their email.

The best way to think about web hosting is like a parking lot. It is a place reserved you to park your car and may or may not cost money to do so. In the web hosting industry a web host is a place to park your web site. The web host will manage the computer that hosts your web site to ensure that it is continually on-line and functioning properly. In this virtual parking lot you can do a lot more than park your car but the basic principle remains.

There are literally thousands of different web related technologies. I'm sure that Tim Berners Lee never thought that his invention would spawn so many complimentary technologies that help enable the web to be more powerful. There are some web hosts that specialize in particular operating systems like Windows, or Unix. On each of these operating systems there are different software related technologies that can be utilized and some web hosts specialize in these specific software related technologies.

Searching for a web host can quickly get confusing with all the available choices but with this level of widespread and specialized service you are sure to find a web host that suits your needs.

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