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Lesson What to look for in a hosting provider
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After you've found yourself a domain name, the second important necessity for your website is web hosting. Essentially, the place where you store all your website's files so that they can be accessed any time of the day or night.
Setting up your web hosting isn't as complicated or traumatic as it might sound, and these days you don't even need to be particularly technically-minded to have everything up and running in a short time.
QUESTION: WHAT IS HOSTING?
ANSWER: A web hosting provider is basically a company that stores all your website files on a server so that they can be accessed from the internet.
Your web host is different from your domain name: Your hosting is your storage, whereas your domain name is like a big neon sign pointing to where your site is hosted. The real purpose of the domain name is that it's much easier to remember than the glorious string of numbers that is the IP address of your host server. Your domain is nothing without something to...
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