All websites have to “host” on a server. The hosting entity not only enables the storing of a certain website, but it also makes it accessible for other machines. Although it sounds very simple at first glance, hosting may turn out to be quite a perplexing term.
Web Hosting companies or Web Hosts are companies supplying space on the internet for storing all kinds of user’s data – information, videos, pictures. The online systems they provide make it possible for the data to be accessible on the internet. Web Hosts connect computers to high speed internet by fiber optics connectivity. Numerous computers are installed in data centers powered by UPS backups.

Internet Service Providers (ISP) make physical space available on their machines for their clients to set up and operate their own website. The ISP manages the software responsible for finding the website by all who need it. Don’t forget to assess the degree of efficiency and performance of the host. Bear in mind that this is an essential issue. You can use free tools available on the internet to check the real time your website is active and accessible.  Of course, you can host your own websites. What you need for this is proper software and a powerful computer. It seems that it will not be long before most of us will be able to host their own websites on their own computers. If you don’t want your website to be amateur, you have to be ready to spend some money to buy your own web space. There are many packages available on the market. It’s not necessary to begin with a big package, just take into consideration the database necessity. The purpose is after you establish your own website to set up websites for your clients and make them pay for this. You will manage the whole site so be sure that they pay for the service more than you pay for their package. By doing this you will be able to adapt your packages to the demands of your clients, MySQL – databases being inexhaustible. However, the disadvantage of having an own server is that it is more expensive than a root-server due to the maintenance it needs. The provider will supply all necessary updates and security patches and will offer technical assistance. Check whether you will have unrestricted user access and root access.
Finding a good hosting and package requires some preliminary investigation. Bear in mind that high price is not always equivalent to high quality, as well as a cheap hosting is not obligatory of bad quality. When you are making your choice about a Web Hosing Company you have to think over several important issues: your hosting plan should have secure socket layer support, streaming media support, support for shell access to your account and FTP access, the FTP support should be anonymous, you should be able to establish sub-domains, have access to logs and statistics, as well as 99.99% uptime.

You can choose among three types of hosting available: Shared hosting, Dedicated hosting and Co-Location hosting. Shared (Virtual) Hosting means that hosting provider shares the server space to many sites on the same machine in order to make service less expensive. When many sites are on the same server, each site won’t have to pay for the whole server, only for part of it. Most of the existing websites today are hosted on shared environment. It is suitable for individuals and small and mediums businesses offering them cheap and adequate online presence. Dedicated server means that you have an entire server for yourself and don’t share it with anyone else. This type of hosting is suitable and necessary for you if you want to host a big application on the internet and have full control over it. Server Co-Location means that you can purchase your own server, adapt the applications to your needs and place it on Internet Service Provider who has high speed internet connection.