Web Hosting is a type of internet service that allows individual and organization to store data online and made accessible via the World Wide Web. Data can be in the form of Images, Video, Graphics or any other digital product. This service can be free of charge or can be purchased at monthly or yearly subscription.

For better understanding consider a hotel as a web host. Which has different rooms, which is web space. Now to live in that room you need to pay a specific charge and for different service like food you need to pay them extra. In the same way, this web hosting company works. You buy web space, which is called hosting account and for every new service you need to use you must pay them extra other than the initial cost.

There are other hosting companies that provide free hosting account too. Negative aspect of that company is that you can’t always rely on them. Though good part is that it’s free, and you can use it to get the better understanding of what the hosting account looks like and how to manage it.

Quick Tip: There are different types of web hosting like Shared hosting, VPS or virtual private server, Dedicated hosting, etc. Out of which shared hosting is most popular and cheaper as well.