Web hosting is an internet hosting service that lets organizations and individuals make their websites accessible through World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that own or lease a server and provide space to their clients for use by them. Such companies also provide internet connectivity in data centers together with data center space. The web hosting services are included in the general internet access plan. These services are either free or paid. A client evaluates the requirements of every web hosting application before selecting the one for him.

Among the important considerations to look into before making such a choice are operating software, scripting software and database server software. Personal web hosting is mostly free or reasonable priced or sometimes have advertisers sponsoring them. Single page web hosting is commonly used by personal web pages as it is generally sufficient for them. A more complex website needs database support and platforms to develop applications this is the reason they are more comprehensive.

Website hosting company provides a Linux-based web hosting which has a wide range of different software. The specific hosting provided by web host providers include the following-

Video hosting services

Image hosting services

File hosting services

Shopping cart software

One-click hosting

Blog hosting

Pastebin

Video hosting services lets surfers upload video clips to an internet site. The host company will then store these video clips on its server and allow other people to view these videos by showing different types of codes. Image hosting companies allows individuals to upload images to a site. Then the image host service company stores these images on its servers and allows people to view them through certain individual codes. File hosting service is another type of internet hosting service designed specially to host contents of static nature, mostly large files which are not web pages.

Shopping cart software helps people make online purchases. It is software used in e commerce. The software assists online customers to make a list of things they want to purchase and calculates the sum total of orders with the shipping and handling charges along with the taxes applicable. One-click hosting is an internet service that allows the surfers to upload any number of files from their hard drives on the host of one-click server very easily and without paying any charge. Blog software is software specifically designed to make the process of creating and maintaining web blogs much simpler.

Pastebin web application allows people to upload text mostly samples of source codes and making it available for public viewing. A very large number of pastebin are available on the internet according to different needs of people and features custom made for the type of people they focus the most.