Hosting Your Web Site

Your web site and your email server will be located (or hosted) on a specific computer connected to the Internet. Your domain name uniquely identifies that computer.

While any computer connected to the Internet can in principal host domains, companies that specialize in hosting can do it best. These companies provide backup services, emergency power, a big pipe to the Internet, and rooms of interchangeable customized computers known as servers.

There is sufficient competition that hosting firms now offer attractive packages of services for as little as $5/month. This includes email services as well as web space.

You can remotely manage your site files using the Internet as easily as if the server were in the next room.

Web Developers Often Resell Hosting Services

Usually at greatly marked up prices. We don't. We will handle the administrative details of setting up your site, but you will contract directly with the hosting firm and save a bundle in hosting fees.

Lost River Press, Ketchum, ID Publisher: Dan Casali, the Mac Wizard