A hosting plan is purchase from a website hosting company. Most hosting company offers different plans, some more than others, as cheap as $3.95 to …. Some companies even offer a free Domain Name with the purchase of a hosting plan. The average plan is around $6.00 to $10.00 a month, paid on a yearly basis.

You can secure a hosting package for as many years as you like but not less than one year. You would choose a plan that is appropriate for the type and size of website you have.

You need a website hosting plan to place your website on a server, (A Large Computer) that is always connected to the internet. In other words, you are buying “renting” storage space to store your website. Think of the large computer as a Mall with many stores.

Servers through out the World Wide Web is all link together and there you have the internet with billions of web page floating electronically from your computer screen to another.