What is web hosting really? Whenever you visit a website, what appears on your browser is basically a website page which is downloaded from a web server to your computer. A website usually consists of many web page. The web page itself is formed of series of texts, pictures, motion pictures, voices and other visual effects. The whole web page and its supporting files has to be placed in a web server in order to be accessable by the internet users around the world.

If you plan to create a website you therefore need a web server. Once your website page is placed on the web server the internet users around the world will be able to access it.

A firm which rents a webserver where you can place website pages in order to be accessed through the internet is called web hosting provider. A webhosting provider that has a credible reputation usually has served many clients for a long time. For example Balinter.net has served hundreds of websites since 2006 (for more information please visit balinter.net profile). To be able to give a hosting service a web hosting provider like ours possesses several servers. These servers are connected to the internet with a very high speed which can reach the amount of gigabytes per second.

Besides placing web files, web hosting usually provides other facilities sucah as:

1. Mail server, a facility that enables you to create an email account of your own domain name
2. Datebase server which enables you to store database.
3. Many more (please check out availalble hosting facility packages)