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Most of the time you create your site and ftp, not email, it to the host. Some html editors like Frontpage, Dreamweaver and Homesite allow you to edit your pages on your site thus avoiding the upload process.
A host is someone with usually a bunch of servers sitting around doing nothing but serving up web pages. When you have a site up on the web, you basically have a very large network. With so many people on this network, people are assigned different IP addresses and a domain name to go along with them. This is where the host comes in (or you if you had the skills to setup your own webserver). The host will register your domain name and tie it to an IP address. Of course, they also do things like keep intruders out and things from crashing and the like. The rely on volume to make money. For instance, they may charge you $10 a month but have several hundred or several thousand people like you which is how they make money.
With most sites, your files will reside in a public_html directory. When someone clicks on yoursite.com , an index file will load your home page and you are directed to the links on that page.
That is a very brief way of the way things work.
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