It is an Intenet hosting service provided by various companies which lets people access a particular website through the medium of internet . Companies that provide space on a server which is previously owned by them to their clients are known as web hosts , thus providing internet connectivity.

Web hosts also provide connectivity to Internet as well as to those servers they do not own .

# Various Types of Hosting

There are basically ten types of hosting services. They are listed below as under :-

1. Free Web hosting service
2. Shared Web hosting service
3. Reseller Web hosting service
4. Virtual dedicated Server
5. Dedicated hosting Service
6. Managed hosting service
7. Colocation web hosting service
8. Clustered Hosting
9. Grid Hosting
10. Home server

# How to get hosting of your site done ?

Usually internet hosting is provided free of charge with the internet access plan . Firstly customer needs to analyse and specify the requirements of the application which he wants and then the hosting he wants to be done . There are many web hosts which provide Linux based web hosting service offering a wide range of different software .

The customer may want some other services in additional to this like : databases or multi-media services for streaming media , email for their business domain . The customer can chose linux as well as windows for its hosting platform . The customer still can choose from PHP, Perl, and Python but may also use ASP .Net or Classic ASP .

Once you get your hosting done , there are many options u can get it for website as today there are different companies which provide us with the hosting services but if u feel things are not working according to you then it’s the time for a new web host.

We may find many companies which are into the market today and provide good services as well but only few reach up to the mark . This means only few companies have excellent facilities , excellent services etc. This whole process is recognised by the company with sense of humor .