What is Webhosting? A Basic Introduction

Web hosting is a type of service offered by individuals, organizations or specialized companies to let companies or individuals place their web sites on the Internet. A web site hosted in such a scenario is available to everyone on the Internet since the web server which is hosting the web sites is on a public network. Such specialized companies that offer various hosting related solutions to customers are called Hosting Providers. Each of these hosting providers would either offer majority of hosting solutions or will provide a specific solution such as dedicated servers hosting based on their company goals and area of expertise.

All websites can arguably be classified into one or more of the following categories:-

1. Personal
2. Commercial
3. Informational
4. Educational (University websites)

Each of the aforesaid categories can be further divided into various categories based on the purpose of the website. Hosting has been around for over a decade now and has transformed into a very large industry which continues to undergo lot of changes depending on the requirements of the customers as they are the sole drivers of this industry like any other industry in world.