A web hosting service is a service that allows individuals and businesses to post web pages on the Internet. A web hosting service provider sells or offers free of charge (provided that advertisements will be displayed on the web page) servers and technologies for viewing web-sites on the Internet.

Web hosting services are those that the customers can utilize after they have purchased monthly dial-up or broadband services that allow them to access the Internet. Web hosting services use hosting and client architecture to upload the content to the server, so web pages and the contained information can be viewed on the Internet in their original HTML format.

A web hosting company will offer clients access to a server that will provide the clients' content to individuals on the World Wide Web after they make a URL or domain name request. To view pages online, you must have a web browser, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, to request the web page from the server after you have purchased Internet access.

Websites are pages that are stored on a computer called a server. The server is a part of a network of computers on the Internet or World Wide Web that allows users of the Internet to reach your site from any part of in the world at any time. The Internet is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Host computers are configured so that when your URL or domain name is typed in, the address will use a pointer routine (search for the address from terminal to terminal) until it reaches the computer that hosts your website. Then, if all is okay, your website should be displayed on the user's screen.

Hosting companies require that you buy your URL or domain name first before you purchase hosting services. Most web hosting companies offer a package that will allow you to buy the domain name and hosting at the same time.