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Web hosting is often provided as part of a general Internet access plan from [[Internet service providers]]. There are also many free and paid providers offering web hosting.

A customer needs to evaluate the requirements of the application to choose what kind of hosting to use. Such considerations include database server software, scripting software, and [[operating system]]. Most hosting providers provide Linux-based web hosting which offers a wide range of different software. A typical configuration for a Linux server is the [[LAMP (software bundle)|LAMP]] platform: [[Linux]], [[Apache HTTP Server|Apache]], [[MySQL]], and [[PHP]]/[[Perl]]/[[Python (programming language)|Python]]. The web hosting client may want to have other services, such as email for their business ___domain, databases or multimedia services. A customer may also choose Windows as the hosting platform. The customer still can choose from Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, but the customer may also use ASP.NET or [[Active Server Pages|ASP Classic]]. Web hosting packages often include a [[web content management system]], so the end-user does not have to worry about the more technical aspects.