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Web hosting is a service that allocates space for customers to showcase their websites on computer servers that are connected to the Internet 24/7.

Think of it as if you were building a house, you need a block of land for that house to sit on. Web hosting is similar to that block of land, it is space for your website to live and is the service that provides access to your website 24/7.

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Servers are powerful computers that have extremely large hard drives, or an array of hard drives. Space is then rented to those who want a "website presence" on the Internet.

Every server on the Internet has a unique numerical IP (Internet Protocol) address. You can think of servers as apartment buildings with unique addresses. Each apartment unit within each building is equivocal to space rented out for individual websites. And like real apartment buildings, each unit also has an address based on "the building" in which it is located.

When you rent a space on a server then, you're setting up house on the Internet. You can be reached by a unique address (the website address), which is based on the server's address.


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