What is the Web Hosting?

Companies, which provide web hosting, shortly named web hosts, offer space in their server and other closely related services like high speed Internet connection to make files saved to web server accessible to every request coming from website visitors. 

What types of files you need to host?

Depending on the sophistication of website, the web server may accomodate just simple static .html files and make them available with minimal processing. Hovewer, modern web applications with extensive content management functionalities need usually little bit more sophisticated data handling in server side. The fastest and scalable data handling is done in running combination of website scripts and database, which saves all texts and links of website.

Upload illustrations and photo galleries

Graphic handling capabilities in server side are important too - it is really convinient to just upload large picture files to the web server and they are processed there for archieving optimal resolution and file size.

Roughly we may divide web hosting services to:

• Shared web hosting service,
• Virtual Dedicated Server,
• Dedicated hosting service,
• Managed hosting service,
• Colocation web hosting service,
• Cloud hosting,
• Clustered hosting and
• Grid hosting.

For exact definition of each you may take further look to Wikipedia Web Hosting article. For typical website, which have couple of hundred pages and will have some thousands visitors each day, the shared web hosting service is best for start. To make finding good host easier, we wrote some reviews in Best Web Hosts in UK page. Most of them are offering shared hosting and virtual dedicated servers, which are most suitable for typical website.