Web hosting is the internet’s most underappreciated pillar. Everything you love about being online—podcasts, memes, articles, tweets, websites, online gaming, Netflix, and YouTube—lives on a server that an individual or company pays to keep up and running so that you can access it. In short, web hosting is the unseen foundation of the online experience.
Before building a website, you should be familiar with the basics of web hosting. Although it’s relatively easy to sign up and use a host’s website-building software to swiftly create an attractive, functional front end, there are many related terms and concepts to wrap your head around. Some of it is confusing, if not contradictory. But don’t fret; I’m here to walk you through what you need to know about web hosting before opening an account.
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