I've said that I'm proud to get my web hosting from Globat.com, but what does that mean exactly? More specifically, what is web hosting?

To help you understand, let's keep things as simple as possible.

If you think of your website as a house that you're building, you can think of web hosting as the land you need to build that house upon. This is where you put all the components that make up your house, or in this case, the files that make up your website. These can include HTML pages, image files, music files, video clips, and flash files. The web hosting company is setting aside space and resources on a special, computer, called a server, for your website.

This server is a specialized computer that is always on, always connected to the internet, and specifically designed to "serve up" your files to visitors to your website, over and over. Because there maybe thousands of files on a server, a good web hosting company only uses the best, fastest servers to handle this load.

In addition to hosting space and the data transfer bandwidth needed to serve files, better web hosting companies will also provide you with tools and features, such as a control panel to manage files on your server similar to how you manager the files on your own computer at home or work. You can also get site builders to help create your website, email accounts, databases, and software that you can quickly and easily install as part of your website.


With a web hosting account at Globat.com, all of these features come included free. They also use the best servers available, ensuring that my site stays up. Their servers are kept in a guarded, ventilated facility in downtown Los Angeles that has multiple power backups to make sure my site stays up no matter what.

If you want the same security with your website, I strongly recommend you get your web hosting from Globat.com.