Webhosting is a method for making your site available to people surfing the internet. Depending on whether your website is designed for business or personal use there are a number of webhosting options. They vary in price and sophistication. Your website is actually hosted on a web server. A web server is a computer through which the information on each website, including graphics, text, products and services, becomes accessible to the general public surfing the worldwide web.

Bandwidth is important in webhosting depending on the type of services the website provides. Bandwidth is the capacity to provide images, information and services to visitors to your site. The more bandwidth you have the more visitors you can accommodate and larger files you can send, receive and otherwise handle. Most people do not require large amounts of bandwidth unless they are doing a brisk business and have a large number of customers or their site has a great deal of graphics.

The types of webhosting offered ranges from free webhosting which provides limited functionality and bandwidth to a dedicated server webhosting where the client’s company is the only one using a particular server. The most commonly used form of webhosting is shared hosting. This means your businesses or personal website shares a server with several hundred other people. You use an FTP or browser to load your website and use the server’s control panel to make changes and edit your site.