What Is Web Hosting?
Whenever you want to visit a website; you type the address (URL) into the internet browser; you search it through search engine; or you click on a hyperlink from your homepage. No matter how you do it, your request to visit the website is noticed and what follows is the response of the server hosting of that particular website to serve the website files into your browser.
Server hosting is like your computer, except for it has stronger computing power. And web hosting is exactly like the hard disk inside your computer. It’s a storage space to keep all folders and files, except for the folders and files that are kept in web hosting are all website related.
Why you should care about web hosting?
In order to host anything online, you need web hosting. Be it a blog or a business idea, you need to host your content online so that the world can access it. Therefore you need to know what a web hosting is and what it can do. Can it host WordPress? Can it run shopping cart? Is there any storage constrain?
What are the types of web hosting?
There are many types of web hosting in the market, for example shared hosting, dedicated hosting, reseller hosting, collocation hosting and etc. 90% of the websites are hosted on shared hosting and based on the statistic, 10 out of 10 people who read this article need only shared hosting, because the 10% has already acquired enough technical knowledge that they do not need another article like this one to explain what a web hosting is. 
Who are web host providers?
Due to the technical knowledge and high cost involved, it’s almost impossible for us to host website by our own. So people with web hosting knowledge come out with this business idea where they provide the service to host our websites. In return we pay a certain amount of fee. They are called web hosting providers. iPage, FatCow, Hostgator, InMotion and JustHost are some big brands of web host providers.
What else you need to know about web hosting?
There is in fact not much technical stuff you need to know about web hosting. Web hosting providers are experts, thus we should leave the technical work to them. Perhaps the most important thing to do on our side is to pick the best expert of all, by learning what they are providing and how good they are doing their job. Other than that, we should concentrate on what we want to do online.