Hosting Services

Hosting services or web hosting services are a type of internet hosting service that allows organizations and individuals to make the own websites accessible through the World Wide Web. The Web host companies provide the server space and connectivity to the internet and the collocation.

The different types of hosting services are:

* Free web hosting service

* Shared web hosting service

* Reseller web hosting

* Virtual Dedicated Server

* Dedicated hosting service

* Managed hosting service

* Collocation web hosting service

* Cloud Hosting

* Clustered hosting

* Grid hosting

* Home server

The specific types of hosting rendered by the web host services are:

* File hosting service: hosts files, not web pages

* Image hosting service

* Video hosting service

* Blog hosting service

* One-click hosting

* Paste bin Hosts text snippets

* Shopping cart software

The hosting services have a wide range of scope.

* The basic service is the web page and the file small scale file hosting. in this service the files can be uploaded via FTP or any Web interface. The files are delivered on the web "as is" and with little processing sometime. The internet service providers and the ISPs offer this free service to the subscribers. Sometime the web page hosting is also obtained from other alternative service providers. Hosting of personal website is free, sometimes sponsor of advertisement are also available. The web site hosting of business sites include a high expense.

* The hosting of a single page is sufficient for personal web pages. The complex sites require more comprehensive package providing database support and application development platform like PHP, Java, ASP.NET etc. these allow the users o write in small forums and content management.

* The host services also provide the control panel and interface for managing the server and installations of scripts like e-mail. These are most commonly used by outsource companies and network infrastructure.