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# Web Hosting Tutorial If you wish to publish your website to the entire world, your website must be placed on a web server. In this tutorial, you will learn: what web hosting is, and what services web hosting provides. Nowadays, web hosting commonly uses cloud servers (Elastic Compute Service, ECS). A cloud server is a simple, efficient, secure, reliable computing service with scalable processing capabilities. Cloud server management is simpler and more efficient than physical server management. You do not need to purchase expensive hardware in advance—you can quickly create or delete cloud servers as needed. Cloud server costs typically range from tens to hundreds of dollars per month, and configurations can be adjusted according to your requirements. For more details about cloud servers, see: [ ## Tutorial List **Start learning about web hosting.** ( This chapter covers: how the World Wide Web works, how to publish a site, and what services Internet Service Providers (ISPs) offer. ( This chapter explains the differences between hosting your site on your own server versus hosting it with an ISP. ( This chapter covers: how to register a domain name, and how to make the most of it. ( This chapter covers: disk space, bandwidth, and server performance. ( This chapter introduces email services—the most common service provided by Internet Service Providers (ISPs). ( This chapter introduces commonly used hosting technologies. ( This chapter introduces some of the most popular web database technologies. ( This chapter introduces different types of web hosting. ( This chapter covers: e-commerce servers.