The term hosting is generically used to describe a variety of services necessary to support a web site. If you connect a couple of computers together at home, or at work, then share printers and even disk drives - you've got a little network set up. Now connect millions of computers around the world together and you've got the Internet.
To make that connection you usually dial into an Internet Service Provider or ISP who gives you the ability to connect to the web, email, and use other parts of the internet as well.
These ISP's not only give their customers a way to connect their home computers to the internet, they also allow websites on their computers which are called servers. By creating a website and putting it on a server connected to the rest of the net, anyone in the world who is also connected to the net can see your site.
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