In the creation of your new portfolio website, you might come across the terms web hosting, website building, or platform building. These might seem interchangeable but there's actually a difference between web hosting services and website building services. Website builders can be used to create the design and layout of your portfolio website, whereas web hosting is a service that provides space and makes your site and its content available on the internet. It's common for website builders to come with web hosting services built-in as part of the package, so you may not need to purchase web hosting separately for your portfolio site. Popular site builders (such as Weebly, Squarespace, and Wix) include free web hosting, so you don't have to worry about that. You can access both website builders and web hosting services from anywhere in the world, and one benefit of using each service separately would include fine-tuned control over the exact design and features that you want for your website, but at a combined additional cost. Cheaper hosting sites exist which can be shared with other users (shared CPU, memory, hard drives and network bandwidth) or there are VPS (virtual private servers) that have server resources exclusive to you. There is also cloud hosting, via cloud-based resources which can keep costs down.