What is Web hosting?

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A Web host is an organization that sells or leases memory space on its servers. Web hosting is typically done in a data center, which provides services to clients that enable them to publish websites on the Internet. A Web host can also provide data center space and an Internet connection for servers owned by others. The service provided by a Web host is called Web hosting.

In France and Latin American countries, Web hosting may be referred to as colocation or housing.

A Web host may be either an Internet service provider, or companies that specifically provide a Web hosting service, such as GoDaddy, BlueHost and FatCow. Personal websites are often provided for free, while business websites are much more expensive.

The percentage of time the Web host server is actually connected to the Internet, thus allowing access to the websites it hosts, is called uptime. This value is typically higher than 99 percent, with about 45 minutes of downtime per month for maintenance.

[kustifranti]

Web hosting is a service that allows organizations and individuals to post a website or web page onto the Internet. A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed in the Internet. Websites are hosted, or stored, on special computers called servers.

[kustifranti]

Web facilitating is a need for any site — it is the physical area of your site on the Internet, an online stockpiling focus that houses the data, pictures, video, and other substance that involves your site. Web facilitating specialist organizations keep up the server where the information related with your site lives, and furthermore deal with the innovation that influences your site to associate with the Internet