Take for example that you are an employee in a company and you have designed a website of your company. Now you want that who so ever wants to get information about your company, should visit that website. For that you have to make the website available on the internet. How can you do this? Its the job of a website host company which allocates a space to your website in the internet through world wide web.
Web hosts are the companies which provide some space they own on a server to their clients. Now you will be this client. There are a number of web companies which provide their services free of cost or can charge many hundreds of dollars. Different hosting services are:
" Shared web hosting service
" Reseller web hosting service
" Windows hosting, etc.
In shared web hosting, many websites share a common server. These website are allocated their respective places in the network and they do not interfere with each other. This is a very economical method of web hosting as in this way, the total cost of maintenance of the server is shared by many users. Each site resides on its own place and remain separated by each other. As the name suggests, sharing of resources takes place. All the websites can share a common pool of resources such as CPU and RAM.
Next comes the reseller web hosting technique. This method allows the client to become a host itself. As we know that the purpose of a host is to provide memory space to its clients. In reseller hosting, the client can further sell this memory space with proper partitions to the third parties. The client can purchase the host services in wholesale and can further resell this space to its customers for profits. Most resellers create their own service plans and decide their own pricing structures.
To establish in reseller hosting business, proper advertising on a very large scale is needed. In order to compete with already setup hosting companies and to get costumers, a reseller needs to advertise its services extensively.
In the end we know that website hosting is the biggest online business as every site requires a web host to become a part of www.