Do you really understand the basics of the internet? Do you think it’s a mysterious secret how all those words have found their way from someone’s computer in Fiji all the way to your computer in Boston? Or vice versa? Well, it’s not really such a mystery and it can be explained in a basic way in just a few understandable words.

Ok, you’re in Fiji keeping a journal (blog) of all the great fauna and flora that grow there in abundance. And you want to share your wonder, awe and observations with the rest of the world. So you create a blog, but now you need a way to get all those words onto the internet. In other words, you need a web hosting company. A web hosting company lets you rent disk space on its computer and gives you other services which give allows access to your web site on the internet to the entire world.

Web hosting companies usually charge a fee, although there are some services that are free. And there are thousands of companies to choose from, making deciding on a hosting company a daunting task without more information about what you are choosing from. Be aware that free hosting has limits and conditions that might not be acceptable to you. For instance, you might not want advertisements to appear on your blog, but free hosting companies often require that ads appear. Also, free hosts often limit disk space and bandwidth, making it difficult, if not impossible to include videos, or other heavy graphics on to your site. And what if you have this great, hour long video of a rare bird feeding her babies in their nest? You will just have to wait until your back in Boston giving a lecture to the Audubon Society, and there goes all the usefulness of the internet.

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