Web hosting accounts give a business a web presence under its own domain name, such as www.peanuts4sale.com. It serves as the secure online home for all your website files and data, enabling uses like e-commerce and content delivery.

Commercial web hosting accounts typically include the following essential features:

• Domain Name Management: Includes services for domain name registration or transfer, and Authoritative DNS (Domain Name Service) hosting. You can typically host multiple domain names that point to the same website.
• Secure File Access: You get secure access using SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) or FTPS to upload and modify your website files safely.
• Storage and Bandwidth: Provides disk space for storing all your website files, media, and databases, along with data transfer (bandwidth) capacity to handle visitor traffic.
• Email Services: Includes the ability to create mailboxes where all email sent to your domain can be routed, usually with the ability to set independent storage quotas.
• Modern Web Development Support: Full support for industry-standard scripting languages like PHP, Python, and Node.js, and access to a CGI environment for server-side processing. This allows for forms, dynamic content, and e-commerce functionality.
• Web Statistics: Tools for analyzing visitor traffic, helping you understand how users interact with your site.