The following diagram illustrates a typical hosting business.

In order to place this business online, the entities in the preceding diagram must be assigned to the following organizations:

- Note: B2B direct Extended Sites has the same organization structure as Hosting.
- Root organization
- All organizations in the business become descendents of the root organization. As well, the administrators who will maintain the online site, the Site Administrators, are added directly under the root.
- Default organization
- All of the business' customers are owned by the Default organization
- Hosting organization
- The hosting organization is created to own all of the hosting related organizations (with the exclusion of the organization that owns the hosted stores). The hosting organization owns the following child organizational units:
- Hosting hub organization: The hosting hub organization is created to own the hosting hub. The administrators who maintain the hosting hub's functions, as well as administering the hosting organization, are termed channel administrators and are owned directly by the hosting hub organization.
- Store directory organization: The store directory organization is created to own the store directory.
- Asset store organization: The asset store organization is created to own all assets that are used to create hosted stores.
- Hosted seller organization
- The hosted seller organization is created to own all of the hosted stores. A child organization unit is created for each hosted store.
- Hosted store organization A, B, C
- A new hosted store organization is created under the parent hosting organization, for each hosted store. The administrators who maintain the store's functions are termed hosted seller administrators and are owned directly by the corresponding hosted store organization.