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What is Web Hosting?

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

Question: What is Web Hosting?

Answer:

Where you keep your Web page is called "hosting". There are all different types of hosting options, from very expensive commercial Web hosts, to free Web hosts.

In order to work on your Web page, you need a hosting option. GeoCities offers free Web hosting . Please note that I cannot give any support for using GeoCities, and I cannot guarantee that their hosting will be free at the time of your reading.

You can find other free hosting alternatives on my site and on the Personal Web site at About.com.

Finally, you can use your own hosting service through your ISP. Contact your service provider for more details about how to put Web pages up there.

For most Web design, you will need a place to host your Web pages. I strongly recommend GeoCities, most people find it easy to use.

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