Table of Contents:

Definition and Overview

1. Overview of the Web

2. Overview of Web Hosting

3. Web-Hosting Implementation on a Dedicated Platform

4. Web-Hosting Implementation on a Shared Platform

5. Web Hosting–Resource Management Challenges

6. Advanced Web-Hosting Methods

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Definition
The World Wide Web (WWW), a web of worldwide servers connected to the Internet, provides an easily used and understood method of accessing electronic content. Accessing information requires data communication between a Web-browser client and a Web-server application. Web hosting, then, is a means of hosting the Web-server application on a computer system through which electronic content on the Internet is readily available to any Web-browser client.

Overview
This tutorial will provide a basic overview of the main components that enable the Web, present two basic methods of Web hosting known as dedicated and shared, and discuss the challenges of resource management.