Web Hosting – Basics
Websites require something called web hosting. Web hosting essentially is a computer that is always connected to the internet in which the files of your website are stored and served to anyone wishing to view them. Of course this is a “nustshell” explanation and now we will go further into detail.
When determining how you are going to host your website, there are a number of things to consider. Of course if you want to host your website on your own computer you may, however this is not recommended as a computer set up to serve web pages, or a “web server”, should always be connected to the internet and handle multiple incoming connections at once.