What is Website Hosting you say? After you create your website - you need to have it available to all your potential customers on a 24 hr-7 days a week basis. The Hosting service does that. You can choose one of the free sites and that is all they do, or if you are serious about doing business on the internet - you can choose a website hosting service that lets you monitor the traffic that comes to your site and where it comes from, provides a secure site for those wanting to purchase from your site, allows you to send out newsletters or ezines, have chat and bulletin board, and all kinds of other features that make conducting business on the internet easier.

I use my son's hosting service. It is professionally done, has built in back ups and generators in case of power outages, has a lot of the tools for customizing your website, as well as the tracking tools to see how your site is functioning. You can contact him at The One Design.