Web hosting services can take up several forms. At its core, the main purpose of web hosting is to provide a platform for the website to live and exist for a business, and as you may imagine, the scale of the hosting will increase in correspondence with the scale of the site itself. Web hosting for, say, Asda’s website will be on a grander scale than that of a smaller retail store specialising on a small number of genres. But web hosting involves other services that go beyond this, and we have covered these below.