Web Hosting

Overview

The World Wide Web (WWW), a web of worldwide servers connected to the Internet, provides an easily used and understood method of accessing electronic content. Accessing information requires data communication between a Web-browser client and a Web-server application. Web hosting, then, is a means of hosting the Web-server application on a computer system through which electronic content on the Internet is readily available to any Web-browser client.

This tutorial will provide a basic overview of the main components that enable the Web, present two basic methods of Web hosting known as dedicated and shared, and discuss the challenges of resource management.