Everybody now wants a website, and nowadays it's easier than ever. When someone makes up its own mind they are in ned of a website, they need to get some content for it. And there are so many great features to do so, and once they have all the necessary info to fill up some pages, they need to worry about registering a site name. The cost is really low, you can register a domain name for as little as 5 USD per year.then you ned to find a proveider to host such material to be displayed across the net. You could actually set up a old computer to do the job, even a 386 from 20 years ago would do the job, but it to hard to set up a DNS, a firewall to protect from hackers, port forwarding and all the other stuff, that many people prefer to pay an annual fee to a Web Host.

A Web Host is a nothing but a Server, on which hard drive you are going to save your work via an Ftp connection. On this server is installed software to send the info of your site to the be fruible by the entire world via Internet connections, and displayed to the end consumer tanks to the browser. Obviously the Web host will be hosting many other website on the server, this is why they sell also servers account.

Generally the Servers are UNIX or Linux based and you are given two options for accessing them, either via FTP interface, as I have already mentioned, or through a shell.

The Shell is a text based interface that allows you to use a command console to manipulate the contents of the website. Is a bit more difficult at the beginning, but once you get used to it, is much simpler and more efficient.

Therefore Web Hosting is: a company whi host your website on their esever.And unless you set up your 20 year old 386 to do the job, these companies will ask for a fee, after all, they are not doing it for charity.