How do web hosting work? Web hosting companies or providers (ISP) have high speed data lines with fiber optics, they are staffed 24x7 and they have very fast and powerful computer servers, these equipment are in a climate controlled rooms commonly called data centers with backup power and generators. The web hosting company arranges all these computer into a rack in the data center or server farms. The hosting company monitors all the websites making sure everything is running fine, however, they do not monitor your specific site, they are responsible for the hardware and bandwidth they provide, its in this hardware that your files exists, its up to you to have control of your files. It would be against the law and most likely their privacy policy to access your files, therefore, you are responsible for your content and files.
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