What is web hosting?
Hosting is renting space on a computer that's always online, so your website is available to everyone, day and night.
In real life
Like renting a shop on the high street instead of selling from your living room: it stays open even while you sleep.
Try it yourself
Your website
A website is just files like these, plus an address people can type.
- index.html
- style.css
- photo.jpg
Your laptop at home
Online
Visitors around the world
- A visitor in LondonWaiting to visit
- A visitor in New YorkWaiting to visit
- A visitor in TokyoWaiting to visit
Running a site from your own laptop works only while it's on and connected. Close the lid, and everyone else gets an error.
Where you will use this
- Track 2, lesson 2: Accounts (Vercel)Coming soon
- Track 2, lesson 12: Deploy on VercelComing soon
Quick check: Hosting
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