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How much time do you have? Hosting is one of those core Internet concepts that starts out simple and gets more confusing as you delve into it.

Every website is 'hosted' somewhere.

In other words, the 'hosting' entity runs a machine that not only stores a given website but - most critically - makes it possible for other machines around the Internet to find that website on their machine.

All of our websites are hosted on a secure, co-located (redundant backup of your site on a second server in the event that the first server breaks down) extremely fast server located right on the "backbone" (huge collection of fiber optic cabling, offering the fastest possible connection to the web) of the internet.

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