JohnFulton.org

When someone types in http://www.johnfulton.org and hits enter, that request has to go to some physical computer where the information that shows up on my website is stored. That place is a "host"

Many hosting sites are available and many are "free" , but it's reasonable to spend $100/year for simple hosting.

If you search "free web hosting" on Google, you get millions of hits. An interesting site is http://www.free-webhosts.com/, with lists and reviews of web hosting sites .

For the Drupal software that you will use to make it easy to set up and maintain your web site, the hosting computer need to allow the use of a programming language called "php". You won't need to know or program in php, but php is needed to support the software that I use.

The software that you will use for your web pages also makes use of a database to store the settings and the information. The hosting computer needs to support the "mysql" database. You won't need to know about mysql or make direct use of it but it needs to be supported on the host computer.