Web Hosting Information  The World Wide Web is a massive collection of web sites, all hosted on computers (called web servers) all over the world. The web server (computer) is where your web site resides (stored) is known as the web host. A Web Hosting Company is a business that provided server space and file maintenance for individuals or companies that do not have their own servers.  More important than the computer space that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to the Internet. Most hosting services offer connections on T-carrier system lines. Typically, an individual business hosting its own site would require a similar connection and it would be expensive. Using a hosting service lets many companies share the cost of a fast Internet connection for serving files. Dedicated hosting is the provision of a dedicated server machine that is dedicated to the traffic to your Web site. Only very busy sites require dedicated hosting, such as CNN and The Weather Channel.