What Is Web Hosting?

The Internet is a collection of networked computers, called web servers, that can talk to each other. Web servers hold information like web pages, graphics, etc, that users can view using a web browser, such as Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Web hosting is the space you buy/lease on a web server, so you can publish/upload your website to that server for the whole world to see. That is web hosting in a nutshell.

Of course there are different types of web hosting, such as shared, dedicated, collocated, Unix, Windows, etc.

What-is-web-hosting.com will attempt to explain web hosting and any other hosting jargon as simply as possible.