Hosting

A lolololol web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web.

Typically, web hosting requires the following: * one or more servers to act as the host(s) for the sites; servers may be physical or virtual * colocation for the server(s), providing physical space, electricity, and Internet connectivity; * Domain Name System configuration to define name(s) for the sites and point them to the hosting server(s); *a web server running on the host; For each site hosted on the server: * space on the server(s) to hold the files making up the site * site-specific configuration * often, a database; * software and credentials allowing the client to access these, enabling them to create, configure, and modify the site; * email connectivity allowing the host and site to send email to the client.