Choosing Your Web Hosting (Part 1)

A web hosting provider is in business to assist people and organizations to create their own sites and then make them accessible on the World Wide Web. While it is possible to host your website on servers that you own (and we have, in the past), the vast majority of sites are hosted on the servers of hosting service providers because this is much easier and doesn’t require a major upfront investment to buy the server hardware and set it up. The hosting service provider rents you space to store the website files and provides time on its computers to let interested people view the website.... [...]