The advent of the Internet has changed the way we live our lives. It has revolutionized the information technology highway and has helped in wider dissemination of knowledge. Many new useful websites are created every hour all over the world. The Internet is indeed growing at a very rapid rate and is becoming the biggest network of computers in the whole wide world.

Many websites upload and store their website's HTML files and documents on the web server of their Internet host company. This is because it is not always possible for customers to have their own server and keep it connected to the Internet all the time. By hosting their websites on the host company's server, the website becomes available to all Internet users across the world 24 hrs a day, 365 days a year. They also have round the clock dedicated departments for technical and customer support.

Various kinds of Internet hosting companies provide their services to customers. Some of these are large, multinational corporations that have state-of-the-art web hosting servers. They have centers across various cities for server backup in case of emergency. Many small companies operate in simple offices or even the basement of their houses with limited or no infrastructure.

Most web hosting companies have different tariff plans according to the type of website hosted. Generally, the rates are less for a long-term commitment from the client to the company. The pricing is based on monthly as well as yearly basis, with the latter being much cheaper than the former. Companies also have different plans for commercial business websites and non-commercial websites.

Pricing also depends on the amount of web space needed for a particular website (there's a huge difference between a small niche site and a huge blog getting thousands of hits a day). More the space, more are the rates and vice-versa. Great care has to be taken in selecting the appropriate web host as many of the low-cost small companies have their servers down most of the time. This adversely affects the image and traffic of the website and consequently lowers site hits. Thus, extreme analysis of the options is required to find cheap and good quality Internet hosting.

Internet hosting can be on windows or linux based platforms with java support. JSP hosting is an uncommon feature in shared hosting plans. The rates are a bit higher for these plans than for regular plans. Standard JSP/servlet container, which is also referred to as Apache Tomcat, is absolutely free. The higher price is mainly due to the extra load on the web server, so the host can't put many accounts on each server.

Internet has a lot of websites that are hosted by different web hosting companies across the world. These companies work on specific servers that supply the websites to the requested computer terminal. Depending on the type of software & hardware present on the server the downloading could be faster or slower.

Thus to sum it up, it can be concluded that many cheap and reliable options are available in the market for hosting Internet websites. It is essential to study the various plans and choose a suitable one according to specific needs.