Website Hosting

An important part of protecting a website against many forms of attack is the care with which you arrange for its hosting. Once the decision is made to create a website and the site is designed, a web hosting solution is needed. Web hosting refers to the placement of a website on a web server, making it available to the web. Web hosting companies provide storage, connectivity, security, access protocols, and other services necessary to serve files for a website.

Web hosting, both free and paid, is available from many different companies. Additionally, it is possible to outsource the placement of hosting services or provide that service internally within the network. Web hosting is essentially the placement of your website on ...

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