How does the web hosting company provide the service?

Currently i am learning about web hosting, i know that hosting a company web site can provided the email facility, how do they do that?

How does the web hosting company provide the service?
If I understand you, we are talking about using a third party to host, say, your company's web site and has included some number of email addresses for your company to use? So, you order plan C with web hosting company A. You get the web site, which simply exists on one of the third party's (Company A) many servers. They most likely made you buy or gave you a domain name like www.you.com, for example. They register that URL with their server's IP address, and as part of your deal with them, they write some code to accept say 50 separate email addresses that are in the form of JDoe@you.com. Then you have to go out and get your mail either by downloading it to a server at your site, which probably defeats the purpose of having the third party to begin with, or you set up your employees to go to the third party's server using a mail client like Outlook Express, download it, and everyone at your company gets his/hers intended email from the third party's server. To the outside public, it looks like it's all going on at your office. Hope that's what you wanted. Chris
Reply:They give a shared (used by multiple people) or dedicated (used by one person) server.





Servers are just really fast computers. The servers are linked up and a share a massive bandwidth provider like cogent (for like 800$ a month).





The email is usally using sendmail linked with some kind of cpanel, custom software, or webmin.
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Reply:Hosting Service providers are companies who usually have deployed the necessary infrastructure to give customers with different kinds of hosting service. There are some hosting providers who take brandable hosting service from real hosting companies and resell to customers. So we have to be carefull while selecting. But its very difficult to find that.





They would have Email servers like qmail, sendmail deployed and give Email service to clients. Hosting companies provide customers with control panel to manage the Email accounts easily thru web interface. So your Job becomes easy and start using email service instantly.





Example if you take www.netandhost.com you can buy the hosting pack online and activate your email service instantly. Thats how the Job is made simple.
Reply:Web hosting is often provided as part of a general Internet access plan; there are many free and paid providers offering these services.





A customer needs to evaluate the requirements of the application to choose what kind of hosting to use. Such considerations include database server software, scripting software, and operating system. Most hosting providers provide Linux-based web hosting which offers a wide range of different software. A typical configuration for a Linux server is the LAMP platform: Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP/Perl/Python.





Web hosting packages often include a Web Content Management System, so the end-user doesn't have to worry about the more technical aspects.