What is Hosting?
About This Topic
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Applicable to {{#ifeq: all | free | Free users}} {{#ifeq: all | pro | Pro users}} {{#ifeq: all | all | both Free and Pro users}}
Web hosting companies, such as Bravenet, provide a service that allows you to provide your own website to people browsing the internet. Your website is located on our servers in a secure datacenter - we do all the work of caring for the supporting hardware and software.
In addition to providing a place for you to run your website, we can also provide email services.
Hosting Solutions
We offer 2 different hosting solutions. For a complete list of features and a comparison between the 2 hosting services, please Compare our Hosting Packages
Free hosting:
- Advertising supported
- Limited features
- Your website would be accessed through a subdomain, for example example.bravehost.com
- Recommended for smaller, personal websites
- A great way to get started on any web design project!
Paid hosting:
- No advertising
- Full featured
- Online and POP3/SMTP email services
- Able to manage subdomains (i.e. example.bravehost.com) addresses as well as registered domains (i.e. www.example.com)
- Highly recommended for hosting a company, organization, or community website
- Provides the features and options needed by advanced web developers
How to Get There
- Visit www.bravenet.com
- Log into your account, or create an account if you do not already have one
- Select the tab