When we talk about online business, web hosting is an important part.

Before going into details of ‘web Hosting' and its implementations. We'll take a bird's eye view of what is actually meant by the term “web hosting”. In this era of speed and connectivity, while the world has become a global village. We can not deny the role of internet in minimizing distances and making it easiest than ever to communicate with each other all around the world.

The term web hosting is a combination of two words, “web” and “host”. The word web refers to the network of internet and the other word host is a familiar term used in our everyday lives, meaning: “the one who entertains guests”. And if we see this word in context with computer sciences, it refers to a computer containing some data which any other computer can access through a network or connecting device.

We can now easily conclude that “web hosting” is a term given to a service which facilitates concerned companies and users with space on a web server. It is a kind of online advertising service that provides its clients with the space on web server so they can store their information or data which can be accessed through web.

Factors that can be involved in selecting a good web host service are as such:

1. Uptime:

The hosting company should be providing you high uptime.

2. Disk space:

The factor of getting enough disk space (to cope up with the requirements of your web traffic) is important.

3. Web hosting location:

Right selection of website hosting location directly affects the customer response. Always choose the hosting location with majority of customers.

4. Flexible control:

Make sure you are provided with full control over your hosting environment and you can make changes as per as required.

5. SSH access:

Always choose hosting with SSH access (If you are not a subscriber of dedicated hosting)

Web hosting can be classified in different types:

1. Free web hosting (For small domestic type sites)

2. Shared web hosting (For small business sites)

3. Dedicated web hosting (For large business sites)

4. Collocated hosting (A cheaper alternative to dedicated hosting)

5. Home server (Used for hosting one or more sites)

One can advertise or introduce his business to the online world through web hosting. Companies or clients who don't have their own web servers go for the web hosting service to launch their data to the online world. Now a question rises that what is a web server? We have already discussed the term “web” and the term “server” implies to the one who serves. So a web server is the main computer with the ability to receive requests from internet for the data stored on it and then sending those details over the internet to be displayed on the requesting computer. In simple means a web server is a place of storage from where the requested data is being transferred to the desired locations. Web hosting companies also provide high speed connectivity along with the space on web server. A good web site hosting service is very important for your business. If it's not good at performance and consists of bad response. The advertisement of your business is in danger! So you have to be very keen in choosing a good service provider.