Web Hosting is a service provided by hundreds of companies worldwide in order to "host" and provide websites for anyone on the internet to see. Web Hosting often involves a number of very large computers, called servers, in a secure location, called a data centre which is air conditioned, maintains a high amount of security and has a very fast connection to the internet.

Servers offer a varied amount of services, technologies and protocols for multiple online applications, such as the website itself, email access, mobile access, multiple databases and more.

To have a website online, you must have web hosting. Web hosting provides you with the space you will need to keep the files for your website online, as well as a secure static position where the site resides to.

All hosting falls into two categories, Shared and Non-Shared. With in this categories is a host of communities each with their own list of common features.