What is a web hosting?
The web hosting is renting space on a bigger and special computer, so that when someone on the Internet send an e-mail to any address that ends in @yourbusiness.com, or when someone visits www.yourbusiness.com, this computer would be responsible for receiving that e-mail and store it, or, to answer the call of www.yourbusiness.com and allow a user to visit your website and access the information.
This computer is known as a "web server" and the price of web hosting services varies according to the general attributes of this hardware and the disk space you want to rent. These are just two of the most important uses that you can give to the web hosting service, as there are many others like to view statistics of visitors from your site, allow your employees or customers to share files via FTP (File Transfer Protocol), create databases, and protect specific information, among other uses.