An Internet hosting service is a service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet. There are various levels of service and various kinds of services offered.

A common kind of hosting is web hosting. Most hosting providers offer a combined variety of services. Web hosting services also offer e-mail hosting service, for example. DNS hosting service is usually bundled with domain name registration.

Generic, yet rather powerful, kind of Internet hosting provides a server where the client can run anything he wants (including web servers and other servers) and has an Internet connection with good upstream bandwidth.