| When a
company decides to go online, the choices to be made are a little
overwhelming. Particularly for those who may be less-than-intimately
familiar with the technical inner-workings of the World Wide Web,
knowing which questions to ask is probably even more difficult to
figure out than which answers are best.
What is a Web Host Service? A web hosting service is a
third-party company which provides and maintains the actual
computers on which websites reside. The computers are accessed from
the Web via a pipeline connection, a direct link to the Internet.
Web surfers locate these websites by the use of the URL (Uniform
Resource Locator, also called a "website address" e.g.
www.somecompany.com) which calls up the IP (Internet Protocol)
address, something like translating a name into a phone number. The
files making up the website, which reside on the host's server, or
computer, are then displayed on the surfer's computer screen.
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