subject: Web Hosting Services to Publish a Blog or Website [print this page] Web Hosting Services to Publish a Blog or Website
In order to publish a blog or website online and make it accessible to computers connected to the Internet you need a Web host. A Web Host is also sometimes referred to as a Web Server and it is just like another computer somewhere else in the online world that provides a convenient and safe space to store your blog and website pages and files so that people can access to them 24/7/365 via the World Wide Web.
You can also link your domain name to your web host so as to allow online users to access your website pages and files via your domain name. When you first link your domain name to your web host it is assigned with a unique IP that points to your data stored on the server. And whenever people who wanted to access your web-pages and files from any place on the internet enters your domain name into their browser's address bar, what happens is the IP-address associated with it is located and website is loaded from your web host.
Instead of using a web server as a central place on the internet to get access to your website pages and files you can also host yourself using your own personal server at the comfort of your home but it is not a preferred choice for many because of the fact that it is very complicated to setup, maintain and also to ensure that your server is running 247. So, it is much more affordable, reliable, simpler and hassle free to use a web hosting service instead of doing it yourself.
There are different types of hosting depending on the services provided by the web hosting companies.
Here are some of the most common ones: Free Web Hosting,Shared Web Hosting,Reseller Web Hosting,Dedicated Hosting,Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS) Hosting,Colocation Web Hosting,Cloud Hosting,Clustered Hosting,Grid Hosting etc.
