- Web hosting services provide internet hosting and its services that provide organization to build the websites. 

- The web hosting services also allow the individuals to access the websites through the World Wide Web. 

- Web hosting provides the space to put their content and allow the clients to provide the Internet connectivity. 

- It provides the data center that allows the use of higher space and connectivity properties for the Internet users. 

- It provides tools to allow the website to run on the servers and easily accessible from the outside world using the browser.

There are different types of hosting provided to upload and share their files using the web or Internet. 

- Free web hosting service: It provides limited services and offers it to companies in that it offers advertisements and other services with limitations. 

- Shared web hosting service: where a server shares many websites all placed at one place having the range from few to hundred. 

* The domains are most probably remains shared with a common pool of resources that is based on the server like RAM and CPU.

- Reseller web hosting: This is the web hosting that allows clients to provide web hosting to others. This includes individual domains that are listed using the affiliated with a reseller. 

- Virtual Dedicated Server: This is also known as also known as a Virtual Private Server (VPS). This provided the divided server resources in the virtual servers and the method that doesn’t relate directly to the hardware. 

- Home server: This is a single machine server that can be thought as a personal server that is used to host one or more web sites using the connection.

- FTP is used to upload the files on the server from the client side where it is installed on the computer of clients. 

- FTP client is checked for the installation of the software and according to that the appropriate directory is uploaded on the hosting server. 

- The hosting server uploads the files that is being created by the user and set the permissions for it so that public can access it. 

- Web hosting uses different directories like HTML that is used as var/www/html that is determined using the FTP client. 

- Initial local directory is being set up using FTP client and it is where the website gets stored. 

- The transfer mode is being determined for the files that need to be transferred either in ASCII or BINARY mode.

There are two major platforms that providing hosting and servers to host on. The differences between them are as follows:

- Unix are more efficient in performing offsite and onsite, whereas windows doesn’t provide very good efficiency to work with. 

- Unix provide lower hosting cost for the website using the high bandwidth, whereas windows take more resources and have the cost higher for the storage. 

- Unix is better for the websites that are static and includes HTML and graphics, whereas Windows is used for heavy websites and having more requirements. 

- Unix supports the scripting languages like PHP and databases like MySQL and other related categories, whereas Windows supports IIS, coldfusion and big applications that take more space.

- The traffic can be measured using the size of the files that are transferred from one place to another (server-client). 

- It can also be measured by the size of the file that is being requested by the client from the server. 

- The number of visitors arriving on the website also involve in the measurement of the traffic using the web hosting platform. 

- The advertisements of the sites take more bandwidth to allow more number of users to be on the website. 

- More number of users provides higher traffic on the website thus it requires more bandwidth on the web hosting sites.

- To host a website a platform needs to be decided using which the hosting can be made simpler. 

- The specification needs to be determined before hosting the website and choosing the hosting platform. 

- The choice of operating system needs to be clear in choosing the website hosting services and the resources that the particular hosting platform requires need to be known. 

- The web hosting platform requires lots of services that need to be decided before hosting the website on the web.

- The space and the cost need to be kept minimum and according to that the choice has to be made between hosted or shared platforms.

- Name based is the virtual hosting that allows the virtual hosts to serve multiple hostnames that runs on single machine and having only one IP address.

- This is used when the web browser is used to request the resource from the server then the server respond using the hostname. 

- Web server uses HTTP protocol to respond to the requested hostname as the part of the request. 

- The server contains all the information of the website and the user that requests for the resources given. 

- Name based web hosting includes the resources and services that need to be given at the time of client’s request.

The web hosting on the server can be accomplished by using the IP based hosting that provides resources and services as follows:

- IP based hosting provides dedicated IPs that consists of virtual hosts and having the different IP address. 

- Web server is configured with different and multiple physical network interfaces using the same physical interface. 

- Web server uses this IP address to connect the client with the server to determine the web site that provides the client a view of it. 

- IP addresses provide the resources that are required in order to use the SSL certificates and other resources rather than shared certificate.