Find a Web Hosting Service
In this section, we will learn about the different tools we need to make our website visible on the internet. Let's start by describing what web hosting is.
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At this point, we have picked the domain name for our website. However, our site still runs only on a local machine. To make it visible on the vast world of the internet, we need a web hosting service.
In a nutshell, a web hosting service stores your site on a server and posts it online for public access. It acts as a platform which provides us the resources needed to run a website.
We can host a website by ourselves as well, but we’d need to have a powerful web server which can handle user traffic. A web hosting service solves this problem, along with many others. Selecting the appropriate service plays a crucial role in web deployment.
Types of Hosting
Before we can pick a web host which suits our needs, we need to understand the primary web hosting strategies available to us in the market.
Dedicated Servers
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