Web hosting sites offer a variety of features, depending on which options you choose. The usual features that they offer are things such as an FTP server, domain names, website building facilities, PHP and mySQL support and much more.

Some web hosting sites offer extra web tools which you can add to your site, but you may have to pay for these to make them advert free. If you aren't bothered about the adverts though, then you can simply add them to your website. These are features such as blogs, guestbooks, site counters, photo albums, forums, calenders, news feeds and much more. If you want more bandwidth then you have to upgrade your account.

The PHP and mySQL support allows you to add scripts to your site for news management systems and databases. Some web hosting sites may offer free domain names, along with an email to go with it (the email will have the same address as your site name).