What is a Web host
A web host provider is a company who rents out web space and bandwidth to those who wish to publish a web site. The web host gives its customer an account, which can be used to upload HTML documents, PHP scripts, graphics, and more.
In other words, a web host is a company that has computers that are hooked up to the internet 24/7. These computers are called servers and they are assigned IP numbers in order that they may be found by other computers hooked up to the internet. It is on these servers that all your web files are stored, be they HTML files (web pages), graphic files, CSS files, Javascripts or whatever.
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Why you need a web host
Basically what happens is when you type a web address into the address bar of your browser and then hit enter, your browser sends out a request to ‘get’ that web page. The request travels across the internet to the appropriate web server and attempts to locate the web page on that server. If the request is successful (web page exists) then that web page will load (or download) into your web browser.
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If you don’t have a web host of your site then your site will unavailable on that request.
Hence, when your content of your site is finally ready, it needed to be online (24×7x365) so you need a web host to hosting your site.
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These web-hosting servers that store and serve up web pages to the internet cost money to set up, configure, maintain. These web hosting providers that own these servers typically charge you a least monthly or yearly fee.
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