What is e-commerce Web hosting? E-Commerce Web hosting adds an e-commerce application to a Web hosting package, which is what allows you to have a store on the Internet. Top? What is a Web Host? To have a Web site or store on the Internet you first need to have a Web server. Unfortunately, owning a Web server can be very costly and requires technical expertise that most businesses don't have. This is where Web hosts come in. Web hosting companies provide the equipment and other technical resources that you need without the headaches that come when you have to do it yourself. Think of a Web host as the landlord of building. A landlord rents out storefronts to various businesses. Each business decorates and runs their store differently, and doesn't worry about the maintenance of the building. In a similar way a Web host rents out space on a Web server - or entire Web servers - to various businesses. Each business builds its own Web store and never has to worry about the maintenance of the Web server. In other words, the Web host provides the place on the Internet where your Web store lives. It's a lot cheaper than buying your own server, and you don't have to hire the technical staff to take care of it.

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