What is Hosting?

About This Topic

• Difficulty: Beginner
• Applicable to {{#ifeq: all | free | Free users}} {{#ifeq: all | pro | Pro users}} {{#ifeq: all | all | both Free and Pro users}}

Web hosting companies, such as Bravenet, provide a service that allows you to provide your own website to people browsing the internet. Your website is located on our servers in a secure datacenter - we do all the work of caring for the supporting hardware and software.

In addition to providing a place for you to run your website, we can also provide email services.

Hosting Solutions

We offer 2 different hosting solutions. For a complete list of features and a comparison between the 2 hosting services, please Compare our Hosting Packages

Free hosting:

• Advertising supported
• Limited features
• Your website would be accessed through a subdomain, for example example.bravehost.com
• Recommended for smaller, personal websites
• A great way to get started on any web design project!

Paid hosting:

• No Bravenet advertising
• Full featured
• POP3/SMTP and web-based email services
• Able to manage subdomains (i.e. example.bravehost.com) addresses as well as registered domains (i.e. www.example.com)
• Highly recommended for hosting a company, organization, or community website
• Provides the features and options needed by advanced web developers
• PHP and MySQL support enable you to run thousands of pre-made PHP applications

How to Get There

1. Visit www.bravenet.com
2. Log into your account, or create an account if you do not already have one
3. Select the tab