Hosting refers to the storage of your website; its associated pages, images and design files.
To make a website work, you need both, a website address (domain name) PLUS website hosting. Imagine the domain name to be your postal address and the website hosting to be the letterbox. One does not work without the other.
When your website is built, it is uploaded to a hosting account attached to your domain. As with domains, there are thousands of suppliers to choose from. There are also different types and levels of hosting. Have a chat to your website developer to find out what you need, and avoid paying too much.
In general, website hosting is available on a monthly or yearly basis. Most types of hosting also include email accounts. From a branding perspective, it is much nicer to have info@yourbusinessname.com.au versus a gmail, hotmail or bigpond email.
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