Architecture The web pages that customers see when they visit a web site are only one of many things that make up a site. Those web pages don't appear out of thin air. Someone creates them and saves them on the hard drive of some computer.
Some people choose to buy a computer and plug it into the Internet at their place of business.
This could be a shop, store front, office, or the basement of a house. Others will sign up with a web hosting service to use their computers for the web site. In the former case you would need a way to connect your computer to the Internet. In the latter case the web hosting is already connected. I will discuss both of these choices in more detail below.