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Web hosting is simply renting a part of or full hard disk of a particular server so that you can place your web files on it. In other words, for the pages of your website to be visible to your website’s visitor, they need to exist on computers, known as servers that are always connected to the Internet thus they host your website’s files, flash movies, images, just anything that you wish to appear online on your website.

Note that the server computer is not the normal desktop or laptop; it is installed with particular hardware and software for that specific work. It is therefore right to say that web hosting service is a kind of Internet hosting service that gives interested parties an opportunity to make their website accessible to the world through the World Wide Web. Still on point, web hosts are the server computer owners, who provide the space to interested parties.

Web hosts can also provide a control panel to clients, to be able to manage the web server and install Scripts among many other services. Web hosting services are wide and varied but the basic one is small-sale file hosting where one can upload a file through File Transfer Protocol.

Web hosting services differ from one web host to another, there are those, like the Internet Service Providers, who offer the service free to their members and there are those who are into it for the money. Personal web hosting is very cheap if not free.