About Web Hosting and Impartance of Web Hosting

What is Web Hosting:

Website hosting is the simply the computer and network your website sits on.

Let us take an example:

When a visitor types in sunlightit.com into their web browser through a system of technical bells and the whistles they end up making a request to the computer that is hosting your website. That computer sends them the site files and all of a sudden they are seeing your site.

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Basically your website host is your website;s home. You are putting up a website because you have something to show the world right? Even if it’s a teeny blog, where you can express your thoughts and feelings. But, it’s probably something more like a few pages to describe your business, or perhaps even a full store where you will transact Business. The point is, there is a point a point to you setting up shop in some way shape or form on the web. Unfortunately, unlike brick-and-mortar businesses servers fail all the time, and so do networks, and software, and any number of things, taking your website offline.

Impartance of Web Hosting:

It’s Your Digital Identity’s Lifeblood a down host means a down site means no business, means lost customers.

Communication If you are running email through your server (@sunlightit.com for example) Marketing the better your website host, the better your search engine results.

Hosting is interesting though in that, if you have a great host, none of the above are issues they just run, and you are none the wiser. However if there is a problem, your business can quickly falter.