What is web hosting and what is HTML?

[Jake]

Web hosting is a service that makes your web sit available on their computer, so you do not have to keep your own computer connected 24hrs a day to the internet, almost all small to medium sites are on some hosting service, while the largest companies own their own file servers.

Shared serves housing dozens or hundreds of sits are common for small operators.

HTML is Hyper Text Markup Language the original browser text definition language. It's possible to layout a page design writing code in a standard editor but most people use a visual editor which writes most of the code as they compose a page. HTML is associated with simple 'static' pages, more complex sites have pages generated on the fly by the server's computer using languages like php.