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This is the place where your website is actually stored and also the server
from which the data comprising the site is transferred when someone visits
it. Specifically, these two aspects of web hosting are referred to as
storage and bandwidth.

These terms may all sound intimidating, but they’re
really not that complex, at least conceptually. When it’s broken down, here
is the best way of understanding how it all works.

The storage at a company like Yahoo hosting refers to the place where all
the information and media that makes up your site is held, so that it can be
accessed when someone types in your website address. Keep in mind that the
internet isn’t some big bank somewhere in the center core of the earth that
we can all just drop websites into and then they are there forever. The
internet is simply a huge network of computers, basically.

Thus, within the network there literally has to be a computer somewhere
with a hard drive on it that keeps your site’s data saved. The act of Yahoo
web hosting doing this is called "Storage." To better understand this,
realize that when you save a picture or song or text document on your
personal computer, you in fact are offering yourself the service of personal
storage.

The type of storage at Yahoo web hosting is only different because it’s
public storage, meaning the kind that will be available to anyone who knows
your website’s address. But essentially a web site is just like a bunch of
pages stored on a computer known as a web server on a huge network.

Yahoo obviously has many computers. They, like most web hosts, actually
keep copies of your site’s data on multiple computers as a deliberate
redundancy. This way, if the worst happens and a server fails for any
reason, Yahoo web hosting always has another copy of your site on an
alternate server (often in multiple geographic locations).