Your website host is the company that puts your website online. It loads your site into its computers (servers) and “serves” it up on the Internet, making it available to the world.
Your website host is not (or not necessarily) your ISP (Internet Service Provider), that is, the company that gives you access to the Internet via a dial-up phone line, or broadband connection such as cable modem or DSL.
Some ISPs are also web hosts, but not all. AOL is an ISP, but not a web host. Earthlink is both an ISP and a web host. Pair Networks is a web host, but not an ISP.
Actually, a web hosting company is not essential. You might be able to host your site on your own computer, but the headaches are so great and varied and baroque, and the cost of having professionals do it so reasonable, that few serious websites are served from home or small office computers.
What makes a good hosting service?
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