What Is Web Hosting? by Sean Felker
What is web hosting?
The best way to explain this is by comparing it to a
real-life (brick & mortar) situation. Picture a web
hosting company as the owner of a shopping mall. The shopping
mall owner invested a lot of money on hiring architects,
constructors, engineers, etc. to build it. Now all the
stores on it are empty and the owner is going to rent
them to smaller businesses that can't afford (or who simply
don't want) their own building.
As a small business owner, you can rent this store space
on a per-month basis. But remember it is empty. So it
will be your responsibility to decorate your store, fill
it up with your own products, furniture & displays
and to advertise your store to the world in order to get
new customers.
The responsibility of the shopping mall owner is to keep
and maintain the building in a top condition for your
business to prosper. In the exact same manner, a hosting
company invests a lot of money to set up high-speed connections
and a full-fledged data center. And as a small business
owner, you may rent virtual space on the web to set up
your store and offer your products or services to the
world.
When you set up your account it will also be empty and
it will be up to you to design your own website (or hire
a web designer to build one for you), and to advertise
it to the world.
for more information on web hosting please visit:
http://the-easy-way.com/webhosting.html
About the Author
Sean Felker is the publisher of the very successful and
popular Work at Home and Making Money on the Internet
blog:
http://making-money-online.blogspot.com/
