What is Web Hosting?

Web hosting (also known as Web site hosting, website and Webhosting), is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for a number of internet sites. More important than the PC space that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to the Net. Most hosting services offer connections on T-carrier system lines. Often an individual business hosting its own site will require a similar connection and it’d be expensive. Using a web hosting service lets many corporations share the price of a fast Web connection for serving files.

A number of Net access providers, such as America Online, offer customers free space for a small Web site that is hosted by one of their computers. Geocities is a site site that offers registered visitors similar free space for an internet site. While these services are free, they are extremely basic.

A number of web hosting corporations describe their services as virtual hosting. Virtual hosting often implies that their services will be transparent and that each internet site will have its own domain name and set of email addresses. In most uses, hosting and virtual hosting are synonyms. Some hosting corporations let you have your own virtual server, the appearance that you are controlling a server that is dedicated completely to your site.

Dedicated hosting is the provision of a dedicated server machine that is devoted to the traffic to your internet site. Only really busy sites require dedicated hosting. Many corporations purchase their own servers and place them on a site that provides fast access to the web. This practice is called colocation.

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