As a business owner with a website designed to either sell, collect leads, or distribute information for your website you should have some idea what business web hosting is all about.

A host is where your website is located physically on the web. All of our sites are at KnownHost based in Texas. Physically, the bits and bytes that make up our website are located on a computer called a server, in Texas. A server could look just like your computer at home, or even be your computer at home if you wanted, but in most cases servers look like stacked stereo components in a cold air conditioned room with good airflow.

Website hosts like Known Host or GoDaddy have rooms full of servers. KnownHost’s servers are located in California and Texas. The rooms or buildings containing all the servers are called data centers.

Website hosts give you a choice of the type of hosting your business website can use. Here are three of the main types of hosting packages you can choose for your business or personal website. » Read more: Business Website Hosting Basics – An Overview