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If you have recently finished creating your own site, or you have one currently being designed for you, you’ll know the next big step is getting it online and live. This is where web hosting comes in .

Think of your website as a series of documents on your computer (images, videos, HTML files etc). Just as a Word document has to be saved and stored on your computer, so too does your website need a computer to store it.