Web Hosting / Server Basics

When you create a Web site, or want to, you need a place to put your site. There are many places on the Net that will allow you to put up your pages and a lot of them will do it for free. When you sign up to put your site on someone's server they become your Web site hosting provider.

An Internet hosting service is a service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet. There are various levels of service and various kinds of services offered.