Web hosting ( sometimes called internet site hosting, website and Webhosting), is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. More important sites. More significant than the computer space that is provided for internet site files is the fast connection to the Internet. Most hosting services offer connections on T-carrier system lines. Often an individual business hosting its own site would require a like connection and it might be pricey. Employing a web hosting service lets many corporations share the price of a fast Web connection for serving files.

A number of Internet access suppliers, for example America Online, offer customers free space for a small Web site site that is hosted by one of their PCs. Geocities is a Web site site that offers registered visitors similar free space for a Web site. Whilst these services are free, they are extraordinarily basic.

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

Dedicated hosting is the provision of a dedicated server machine that is dedicated to the traffic to your internet site. Only really busy sites need dedicated hosting. Many firms 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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