Explain web hosting? Duck soup! It’s in the cloud but not necessarily in a cloud, wait, hold on, isn’t it the cloud itself? Now we’re both confused. One of our values here at Crucial is to “make complex simple”, so I’m going to make web hosting so easy to understand, even your grandparents will get it! What is it? Web hosting is a service that puts your website or application on the Internet. Anyone can access it from a domain name, which is the link in the top of the Internet window (e.g. www.crucial.com.au). How does it work? A server is a computer that connects to the Internet. Web hosting companies own, run, and manage tons of powerful, high-tech servers for thousands of customers. A single server can connect thousands of websites to the Internet. Analogy: Web hosting is like..
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