Internet hosting service

In the context of the Internet, an Internet hosting service is a service that operates servers linked to the Internet, enabling organisations and individuals to serve content or host services that are accessible over the Internet.

Web hosting is one of the most frequent types of hosting. Most hosting companies provide a variety of services, such as e-mail hosting, website hosting, and database hosting, among others. In addition to domain name registration, DNS hosting service, another sort of service often offered by hosting companies, is sometimes packaged with domain name registration.

Dedicated server providers offer customers with a server, which is often hosted in a datacenter and linked to the Internet, on which they may run any applications they choose (including web servers and other servers). Hosting providers guarantee that the servers have high-speed Internet connections with sufficient upstream capacity as well as dependable power supplies.

Shared hosting is another kind of hosting service that is widely used. This is a sort of web hosting service in which the hosting provider provides hosting services for several customers on a single physical server and divides the available resources amongst the clients in a shared hosting environment. The use of virtualization is essential for this to be successful.