11-17-2011, 08:49 AM
In a layman's language, a web hosting is a place to host (contain) your website content.
After purchasing a domain name, the next step is purchasing a web hosting service.
Logically speaking, your website content has no content in the beginning. In other words your web hosting directory is still empty because there is no content yet in the web hosting place (stored in a remote computer server). A website owner does not need to worry about maintaining any hardware associated with the domain name and web hosting due to the fact the website owner has paid for the two services.
Incase you may ask what about free domain names and free web hosting. Well usually websites such as free blogs (e.g. BlogSpot, word press, webs, etc) are given free but not the top level domain names (dot com, net, org etc.). You would get a sub domain name and when someone clicks your sub domain name, the visitors would see the content hosted on your free web hosting company. And how do they make money to sustain their services (without which they would not be able to offer you free services). Well, they have to make money at some point that is advertisement that is cleverly placed in your website page and / or e-mail.
After purchasing a domain name, the next step is purchasing a web hosting service.
Logically speaking, your website content has no content in the beginning. In other words your web hosting directory is still empty because there is no content yet in the web hosting place (stored in a remote computer server). A website owner does not need to worry about maintaining any hardware associated with the domain name and web hosting due to the fact the website owner has paid for the two services.
Incase you may ask what about free domain names and free web hosting. Well usually websites such as free blogs (e.g. BlogSpot, word press, webs, etc) are given free but not the top level domain names (dot com, net, org etc.). You would get a sub domain name and when someone clicks your sub domain name, the visitors would see the content hosted on your free web hosting company. And how do they make money to sustain their services (without which they would not be able to offer you free services). Well, they have to make money at some point that is advertisement that is cleverly placed in your website page and / or e-mail.