Web Hosting is vital to every website in the world, but it is often neglected or misunderstood. You could spend a small fortune on a website designer or web design company and come up with a beautiful, professional website design, but if it takes 30 seconds or more for the site to load, then it's unlikely that many people will see your lovely website design.
What is hosting?
A website's data must be stored on a computer (server) that is connected to the Internet so that it can be accessed by any other computer with an Internet connection. The service for storing a website and making it available on the internet is called hosting, and the service provider is called a web host. Your web hosting will decide how fast it will load and how many people can access it at the same time, it is necessary to use the best you can host.
The variety in web hosting services is as wide as the variety of types of websites, website designs, web designers and web design services, so it is important to be aware of the many different types of hosting available and what will suit your website needs
Most web designers and website design companies would prefer hosting companies and some will offer hosting as part of their package. While your website design is being prepared, your website designer can store your website with their own server for testing. In this case, the server may be called a testing, development, or staging server.
When your website design is complete, your website designer will move to its permanent home. This is referred to as a production server. Your website designer may use these terms so it is helpful to know them. For example, once you have approved the project you can then go "live" by placing it on the production server.
