Web hosting is provided by different companies as part of a general Internet access plan; there are many free and paid providers offering these services. Free hosting is generally for individuals and Businesses are generally restricted to using a paid Web host to host their site on. But there are more facilities than free service given on paid Web hosts like 24/7 support and personalized assistance. These also load more quickly since each server hosts fewer sites, giving each site a larger proportion of resources.

This also depends on the requirement of the customer, in which application he want s to create his site, asp, php dot net etc. A customer also needs to evaluate the requirements of the application. Also which is the platform required windows or linux. Most hosting providers provide Linux-based web hosting which offers a wide range of different software. A typical configuration for a Linux server is the LAMP Platform. This includes Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Python or Perl). Usually there is limited interoperability between the two, although Linux servers can integrate with Windows file services through Samba, and some Linux hosts provide support for Microsoft FrontPage server extensions.