A good web hosting provider and service can both positively or negatively affect your website’s performance and success.   What is Web Hosting? The simplified answer to this question is that web hosting is the action of buying or renting storage space on the internet via a physical server in order to house your website data, files, coding, cookies, etc so that others can visit it online. Every website you’ve ever visited is being hosted on a server.   The amount of space your website is given on a server depends on the type of hosting you purchase. There are five main types of hosting