What is Web Hosting?Let's set the scene...
You have decided you need a website for yourself, you business, your children, or whatever. You have done your homework, learned to make html pages, link them together, add pictures and maybe sounds or animations. Now, how do you make them available to others?If have a constant broadband connection, and you do some more homework, you could set up a web server program on your computer, like Apache or IIS. This might be fine for a website for personal use. There are some hurdles to overcome but it certainly has been done. The thing to remember here is that if you turn your computer off, your website goes down and will not be available to the world outside. Similarly if you lose your internet connection, your website will be unavailable. For these and other reasons, most businesses have elected to utilize outside web hosting companies, like gigfoot.net, to provide web serving computers for their websites. A web hosting company owns and maintains multiple web servers, and is responsible for maintaining a constant internet connection for these machines, an uninterruptible power supply for these machines, as well as internet security, software upgrades, hardware maintenance, and all of the events required to keep the machines current, secure, and stable. | 
