Assume that business houses have designed their website and now the question is how to make this website to be available on World Wide Web through internet. First thing is to buy Web Space on a Web Server from a Web Hosting Company and transfer these website into the web space server. Web Space is a small portion of a web server owned or rented by a web hosting company. This process of transferring a website into server web space is called Web Hosting .

Web hosting company is basically a web space service provider> Even though most of the web hosting companies offer some value added services like selling domain services, web templates etc… in order to provide their customer all web related products under one roof, their major service will be selling web space to end users as well to resellers, who in turn sell web space under their own brand. Most of web hosting companies have their own Data Centers, a place where web hosting companies maintain their servers and some may rent out based on their needs. Factors to be considered while buying web space are Server Software, Disk Space and Bandwidth .

The common server types are Windows 2000, Unix and Linux . Disk space or Web Space is the size of space allotted on a particular server for uploading the web pages and Band Width is an amount of transfer from the web server thro internet. For a basic website, there is no need to bother about server type, disk space and band width, but if a website has data base then server type is very important as database support of a website by the server depends on their types. For example, a website with MS SQL database can not be store in Linux Server but only in the Windows server.

Different types of web hosting are available based on the necessities and pricing. Common types are Dedicated Hosting, Shared Hosting, Co-located Hosting and of course absolutely FREE Web Hosting.Lets have a brief look on how they differ? First type is more secured and costly Dedicated Hosting which is normally needed for bigger websites with huge traffic like E-Commerce Shopping Carts as they have information to be shared as well interactive communication where valuable records are getting transferred , they need more security as well higher band width, hence dedicated hosting is the best pack for them.

Second type is a most common and low pricing Shared Hosting where thousands of websites will be hosted and they share the same server and its features. The drawback is fro small websites as if there are many bulky websites on the same server , then the performance of the small websites will be affected, but the same time it's a great feature for bulky website as they get the best at low price.

Third one is Co-Located web hosting is just like dedicated web hosting. Instead of having a own server in dedicated hosting, here server can be rented out and to take responsibility of maintaining the server completely like except electricity, storage and internet facility. Fourth one is Free Hosting . Now a days many companies offer free hosting for a website as promotional activities. Fifth one is Reseller Hosting which is just like shared hosting with additional features of extra tools in order to Re-Sell the serer or web space into many units to the end users under their own brand name.