Web hosting is a service that allows organizations and individuals to post a website or web page onto the Internet. A web host, or web hosting service provider, is a business that provides the technologies and services needed for the website or webpage to be viewed on the Internet. Websites are hosted or stored, on special computers called servers. When Internet users want to view your website, all they need to do is type your website address or domain into their browser. Their computer will then connect to your server and your webpages will be delivered to them through the browser.

Let’s start with some statistics, this will help you with information on the impact of web hosting creates on our day to day life.

• As of July 2021, there are more than 1.2 billion hostnames registered online.
• 1969 is the year when the first 4 hosts were registered.
• In 2019, the web hosting industry market size was valued at $56.7 billion.
• The shared hosting segment dominated the market, with a revenue share of 37.64% in 2019.
• By 2027, the web hosting industry market size is forecasted to grow to $171.4 billion.
• 1,773,600,800 is the current number of websites on the world wide web.
• $38.5 billion was the value of the global demand for web hosting in 2019.
• The size of the global cloud computing and hosting market industry is expected to hit $156.4 billion in 2020.
• More than 59% of the worldwide population uses the internet as of 2020.
• 854 million was the number of internet users in China as of 2019, making it the country with the highest number of internet users.
• 9 % of the world’s internet users come from Asia as of Q1 2020.
• There are around 5,000 host providers in North America.
• Web hosting providers support more than 4.66 billion people worldwide.