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Site Host Site Host - One service often closely associated with domain names is web site hosting. The World Wide Web is a massive collection of web sites, all hosted on computers (called web servers) all over the world. Because of the web's uniquely global nature, a web site should be accessible 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Rather than pay to have a 24/7 dedicated Internet connection to an in-house webserver, many people opt to host their sites with a web hosting provider. Web hosting clients simply upload their web sites to a shared (or dedicated) webserver, which the ISP maintains to ensure a constant, fast connection to the Internet. If you make your own arrangements with a site hosting provider (or have someone make them on your behalf) then you have better control over the site's content and content development. For example, if you are dissatisfied with the content, you can more easily switch to a different developer.á Site Host [back]