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What is Web Hosting?
We often hear this question when talking to someone who’s never had a website before. It’s understandable, the term was new to us once as well. We try to explain it, thinking it’s simple to grasp, but often get nothing more than curious looks at first. It’s not as easy to explain as one might think apparently. This learned fact is the inspiration for this article. Let’s start from the beginning. To understand web hosting, one needs to first understand what a website is.
Advantages of Domain Name Ownership
In the early 90s our mother company, The Green Spot Ltd., started using email. Our first email address was through MCI, affording us an us@mcimail.com email address (or something like that). All was good. It didn’t look terribly professional, but back in that time we were ahead of the game compared to some of our industrymates. However, within the year MCI sold or changed names to worldcom.com. We had to update everything. Some time later we were told to change again, this time to some British-owned outfit. There was a buyout. Oh, man. Each time this happened it cost us a great deal of money — most everything was printed the old fashioned way back then, on paper, and that was inconvenient and expensive. Having been repeatedly burned by others we decided to take control and there was only one way to do so. It’s was time for our own domain name. It was time for our own email addresses.