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Designing a web page is only half the battle. You also have to find a place to host your website for all the world to see. Unfortunately, it’s not always feasible to host a large-scale website from a home computer. If any significant number of people were visiting your site, it would require more bandwidth than most home connections provide. That’s why you need to find a good web host for you site.

It is possible to host a website from your home, but it requires expensive equipment. It also requires that your service provider allows you the bandwidth to host high volumes of traffic. On top of all that, you’d have to learn how to set up the web server yourself, as well as set up firewalls and other protections to keep your server safe. Also, if you want to ensure your site is up all day everyday, then you have to watch it yourself.

For all those reasons, the vast majority of Webmasters find a web hosting service that meets their needs. When you contract a web hosting service, you are paying them to use their network server infrastructure, and also to provide support for your site. That means that the only time you need to worry about your site is when you’re updating it.

Before choosing a web hosting service, it’s important to know what you need. Some services have bandwidth caps, and depending on the type of site you run, this can be an issue. You also want to make sure that the host you choose can offer useful bonuses such as tracking statistics. You also need to know whether your need dedicated hosting or shared hosting. With dedicated hosting the entire server is yours to use, but with shared hosting you will share the server resources with possibly hundreds of other users. Finally, if your site uses certain technologies, such as PHP, you’ll want to confirm that the host’s server is compatible with them.