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Web Site Hosting

By Linda Roeder, About.com

Definition: When you create a Web site, or want to, you need a place to put your site. There are many places on the Net that will allow you to put up your pages and a lot of them will do it for free. When you sign up to put your site on someone's server they become your Web site hosting provider.
Also Known As: homepage hosting, free hosting
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I need to find a place that does Web site hosting so I can get my site online.
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