What does hosting mean?

Hosting refers to a store where a website on a computer connected to the Internet.

Hosting simply refers to where the website is delivered or run from. For a web site to be accessible to the world, it must be on a web server. That web server must be always connected to the internet and running so that your website is available to anyone at any time around the world. Hosting is just who or what machine is going to be doing that for your site. Most site operators choose to let a hosting company do this for them. These companies go by a few different names such as web host, or ISP (Internet Service Provider).

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