What is Web Hosting?

Now that my secret is out and people know I’m the author of Web Hosting For Dummies, the question I get asked most – probably daily – is, “What IS web hosting?”

I try to answer succinctly and have almost got my explanation down to under 50 minutes, but in writing it’s considerably easier to explain, so I’d like to share with you an extract from Chapter 1 of Web Hosting For Dummies, where I explain hosting in terms that everyone can all understand:

In this chapter, I explain the whole system of...