WHAT IS WEB HOSTING?

Web hosting is online service which helps companies and individuals to post and share their sites and pages in the Internet. Web hosting service provider is a company that offer services and technologies that are necessary for creating, posting and supporting web sites and web pages. Hosting provider takes responsibility on solving tech problems and keeping site up while it depends on hoster's servers. Websites are hosted on special computers called servers.

To reach your site and view its content user need to fill in your site address in web browser. User's computer will immediatelly contect to the site and your pages will be shown to visitor through the browser.

In most cases hosting companies require that you have your domain name in order to host sites on their servers. If you do not have a domain name the hosting companies offer you to buy domain name.