A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that hosts websites for clients, i.e. it offers the facilities required for them to create and maintain a site and makes it accessible on the World Wide Web.

A shared web hosting service is a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet.

The following sections compare general and technical information for a variety of web hosting control panel software packages.

A web hosting control panel is a web-based interface provided by a web hosting service that allows users to manage their servers and hosted services.

using peer-to-peer networking to distribute access to webpages.