Introduction

Web hosting is a term related to Websites. A Website needs to be hosted on a web server, which is a computer equipped with web server software such as Apache, Microsoft Internet Information Server, or any other. A web server is used to host single or multiple websites and is called "Web Hosting".

Can you host yourself?

Its not recommended to host yourself. A professional web hosting company has a lot of web servers, equipped with power backups, high speed internet connectivity, and they are able to keep their computers (web servers) running online smoothly.

Every web master (owner/operator of a website) wants his/her website to be up and running 24 hours. Hence you can not afford to host your website on a poor server which goes down for any reasons.

Types of Web Hosting

There are several types of web hosting.

1. Shared Web Hosting
2. Dedicated Web Hosting
3. Virtual Servers
4. Dedicated Servers

Shared web hosting

This is the most commonly used web hosting type for general users. If you have a small informational website, a personal blog, a portfolio site or a small ecommerce site running online with a few products. Shared web hosting is the most economical method to host your websites. Shared hosting is normally available from $7 to $20 per year.