Hosting provides websites and other applications accessible via the internet.

Service provider und Webhoster usually offer futher products to manage and exchange data, such as domain registration, webmailer, database. There are different offers and prices depending on the service provider.

Usually, provider and customer make a contract that lasts for a certain time and the customer pays a hosting fee every month. Furthermore there can be a single setup fee, too. If the customer wants to leave the hosting provider he has to send a request for the domain shifting.

There is a wide spread of hosting services and prices. Therefore customers should get well informed. Unfortunately, there are newcomer sometimes, who have to cancel their hosting services already after a few month. So the customers’ websites are maybe not accessible via the world wide web at this time.