Hosting

Since we started mentioning the website’s performance, it’s time to talk about the terms related to hosting. 

Hosting is a service provided to store your website’s data and manipulate information from and to your website and its users.

A hosting provider grants you access to one or more servers, which are essentially computers accessible by internet users. Therefore, these computers have internet access and computing power.

This is a very nebulous area for many people since there are a lot of acronyms and words that get confusing very quickly.

Note: Don’t forget to visit your lesson “Making sense of basic internet terminology: hosting, servers, database and the like” to refresh your memory on how servers work.