What is the difference beteen webspace and web hosting?

A web host is a company that provides storage space for your website - in effect you're renting a bit of their computer. Normally a web host will provide you with a suite of tools to help design your site and give you easy access to features such as blogs, access stats and so on.





Depending on the context of 'webspace' determines what it means. 'A webspace' is somewhere a website resides (normally a web hosts computer), 'Webspace' is the amount of space a website takes up or the amount of space available for a website.





For example, I have a website with Yahoo (the web hosting company) and included with that package is 400Gb of webspace available for me to use but the webspace taken up by my site is about 10Gb.
What is the difference beteen webspace and web hosting?
Web space is where your web site is stored. It is an allocated amount of hard drive space (i.e. 50Mb), on your hosting company's web server.





WEb Hosting = The World Wide Web is a massive collection of web sites, all hosted on computers (called web servers) all over the world. The web server (computer) where your web site's html files, graphics, etc. reside is known as the web host. 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.
What is the difference beteen webspace and web hosting?
Webspace and web hosting are quite similar


however the ones refered to as Webspace are usually free service provided by let say Yahoo/Geocities they 'host' your website(and or other files) for free without monthly or yearly payments unless extra services are requested and or expanded such as more MB space.





Same with web hosting, Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith.





Multi-page, commercial Web sites are hosted at a very wide range of prices, and the customer's registered domain name is used. A single computer can hold dozens to hundreds of small Web sites, while a dedicated computer or multiple computers (from a handful to thousands) may be used for one large Web site.


Web hosting services also can be a dedicated server which mostly handles large amount of data for multiple users.





Hope this helps.
Reply:First a web page is an HTML file that is available over the internet or intranet depending on your network setup. This file is available to any connected computer that has connectivity to the machine(Computer) that is keeping (Hosting) the file in its storage devices i.e. a Hard disk.





Depending on your prefarences, you can decide to have your HTML* file available to the internrt community from your machine or your ISP**. This privission of HTML files to the internet is called WEB HOSTING.





You can have a set of linked HTML files on your machine and can browse them with your web browser. If they are not available to other machines via networking technology, they do not qualify to be called web pages.

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