Web hosting
Also known as: hosting
Web hosting ensures that websites are continuously available on the web. A hosting provider manages (usually) several Web servers that are connected to the Internet 24 hours a day via high-speed lines. They offer subscriptions to rent a piece of space on these servers to store the files on your Web site.
Hosting solutions come in different flavors. Having a website hosted can be as little as a few dollars per month. Customers with a business website will value good accessibility and speed of their website and good support with their subscription. In that case, the extra cost of this will definitely pay for itself.
When a website attracts many visitors, or an online application needs more computing power for complicated calculations, another option is to rent an entirely separate web server. A collection of Web servers dedicated to downloading static files as quickly as possible is called a content delivery network(cdn).
Often when you purchase a hosting service, it is possible to register a domain name right away.
