
Before you get to grips with hosting and domains, it’s important to understand what they are and where they come from. When you load a website, what you’re in fact doing is downloading files from a machine somewhere that stores the website in question. That machine is the internet in it’s most physical form. It is always on, always connected to the internet so access to that website is always available. Every website on the internet is stored on a similar machine and this is called ‘hosting.’