These are the functions that are described so you will be sure what they are excellent at supporting in hosting your web site.

1. Disk Space or Web Space: This space is in context with the volume of disk storage provided by the web site hosting service to store a website on the web hosting company’s server. It can range anywhere from one GB to 10GB; this means that if each web page is about thirty KB and it is possible to store approximately three thousand static web pages on 1GB disk space.

2. Bandwidth or Data Transfer: This is the total volume of data allowed to be transferred from a website every month, or is better defined by using the term ‘monthly traffic.’ This means that the more users visiting a website, the more the bandwidth required.

3.Protected folder: This is an very important feature for web sites, using a PIN web owner can block access to folds or webpages of a site. Only visitor that have a login ID can visitor the restricted areas. In order to enable the password protection webmasters are needed to create and modify the ".htaccess” and “.htpasswd” files, though majority of the web hosting services such as Yahoo Hosting have a Control Panel to do this.

4.Email functions: When purchase a webhosting account, the services providers also give email address. {It could be anything betwen 20 to ‘n’ in number}. The privilege of such accounts is that they have it in sync with the website address as the forward address,

5. FTP: File Transfer Protocol, these accounts are used to upload the websites that have been created on the computer. Web host providers support multiple FTP accounts, incase multiple users are needed to upload web pages on the server. Majority of the times, one FTP account is not sufficient, this is the reason that you are provided with multiple accounts. No doubt, FTP is also a method of transfering webpage to the web server, software such as FrontPage Extension is good for transfering directly.