from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
web hosting
<World-Wide Web> Serving {web pages} for other businesses or
individuals, usually as a commercial service. The most basic
web hosting would be to store some {HTML} files on a shared
web server, but a web hosting businesses may provide any or
all of the functions required by a web site: networking, HTTP
server software, content storage, content management, running
customer or off-the-shelf {CGI} programs, {ASP} scripts or
other server extentions, load balancing, streaming content,
{domain name} registration, {DNS} serving, {electronic mail}
storage and forwarding, {database}, {shell account}, content
design and creation, {search engine optimisation}, {web log}
analysis.
(2008-04-15)