What is Website Hosting

First of all, unless you've been living under a rock, you should know what a website is. It's simply a online destination that you visit for information or anything else that you need digitally. Therefore, website hosting is the hosting a websites or accommodation of them on servers that are connected to the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Website hosting or web hosting is directly resulted from Internet where computer networks are inter-connected thus all computers across the globe are accessible as a node from any of the rest of the computers. Internet is conceived by a protocol set called TCP/IP. It's what every computer relies on to communicate with the others.

A computer is then connected the Internet, for what? There got be something that they can do with it or what's the point of Internet? Typically, there are 2 sorts of computers on the Internet, namely servers and clients.

A client computer is what you use to surf the net, like the one you are currently using to browse this web page. You use it to search and fetch information you need on the Internet. That's where the server kicks in. The information you found and downloaded is hosted on the server. Thus website hosting.

Everything we see, use and download is hosted on websites, from large chunk of texts to video slices or even web games. Websites are accessible via domains which are not the websites themselves. Domains are merely an address that's devised for quick recognition and easy recalling. They are just pointing to the actual websites that are hosted on web servers.

So there you go. Website hosting is simply the operation of hosting websites on web servers so they are accessible via domains or URL addresses. Usually, a professional web hosting server is constantly connected to the Internet to keep the websites available so the visitors can use it any time they want. But there will be incidents that servers are forced offline thus down the websites hosted on it.

While big corporations, especially those relying on Internet to carry out businesses, has their very own data centers that have hundreds of physical servers to host their websites. For example, Microsoft.com, one of the most visited website in the world is hosted across multiple data centers to ensure up-time. Google.com, the undisputedly most successful Internet company thus far has hundreds of data centers across the planet.