Types of hosting, read here a brief description on many different types of hosting services available and make an informed choice

Types of hosting

When looking for a hosting service provider, don't just look at the dollar amount of the plan, or some other nicely phrased features. Make sure that the plan really serves your needs. Read the brief description below which includes many different types of hosting services available. You may also refer to our more detailed Knowledge Base for additional information on many types of hosting plans

Budget Web Hosting
A Budget Web hosting refers to a cheap web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site 'sits' on its own partition, or section/place on the server to keep it separate from other sites
Windows Web Hosting
Windows Web Hosting provides Windows based server plans that give you the ability to exploit the power of Active Server Pages for dynamic content, in addition to Microsoft SQL Server Pages for specialized database tasks
Unix Web Hosting
Unix Web Hosting or Linux Web Hosting is the primary alternative operating system to Windows Web Hosting. Suited to web sites written in PHP, Unix hosting, is increasingly recognized as a highly stable, scalable, operating system from which to manage web sites and applications
Shared web hosting
Shared web hosting service or virtual hosting service refers to a web hosting service where many websites reside on one web server connected to the Internet. Each site 'sits' on its own partition, or section/place on the server to keep it separate from other sites.
ASP.NET Hosting
ASP.NET is a programming language developed and marketed by Microsoft, that programmers can use to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. ASP.net web hosting is a specific type of hosting that caters for websites written using the ASP.NET language.
Ecommerce Hosting
Ecommerce Hosting is a service that caters to anyone looking to make online transactions. Ecommerce hosting plans, include, storefronts, product catalogs, shopping carts, merchant accounts, inventory management and of course fraud prevention and security.
Dedicated Hosting
A dedicated server or managed server is a type of Internet hosting where the client leases an entire un-partitioned server. This is offers a more scalable and flexible solution, than shared hosting, as organizations have full control over their servers, including choice of operating system, hardware.
Managed Hosting
Managed Hosting providers employ full time system administrators that maintain clients dedicated servers. Managed servers offer the same advantages as a dedicated server, your provider owns and is responsible for the dedicated server, network, devices, operating system.
VPS Hosting
A virtual private server (VPS, also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server or VDS) is a method of partitioning a physical server computer into multiple servers such that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine.
Colocation Hosting
If you want to own your web hosting hardware, then you will need to find a Data Center or Colocation company to house your server. Colocation services include backup power supplies, redundant data connections, environmental controls and security.
Adult Web Hosting
Adult Web Hosting providers offer a range of business services tailored to age restricted markets. Adult Hosts, can manage your industry specific requirements. Services often include video streaming, online payments, security, and fraud prevention.
Reseller Hosting
Reseller hosting is a form of web hosting where an account owner has the ability to allocate hard drive space and bandwidth on behalf of third parties. The reseller host purchases the host's services wholesale and then sells them to his customers for a profit.
Business Web Hosting
Business Web Hosting plans offer a set of Internet-based tools that gives you everything you need to take your business online. Easily create a professional Web site, efficiently market to customers, and effectively manage your online business identity.
File Hosting
Online Storage services allow a user to backup their files via the internet. It allows large amounts of information to be kept in secure locations which can then be accessed if any of the original information is accidently lost.
Personal Web Hosting
Personal Web Hosting, is the hosting of personal web pages containing images, text and a collection of hyperlinks. Topics often include, biographical information, résumés, and blogs. Add personal domain name personal web hosting allows easy sharing of information between friends and family.
Exchange Hosting
Exchange is the provision of a remotely hosted version of Microsoft Exchange Server including Microsoft Office Outlook. Ideal for organizations with several locations, as it allows for much greater information sharing, meeting scheduling and Public Folder support.
Cloud Hosting
Cloud hosting is a computation or storage offered as a service supported by a pool of distributed computing resources, also known as utility computing or grid computing. Cloud Companies provide sharing and management of large amounts of distributed data.
SharePoint Hosting
SharePoint Hosting is a web-based collaboration platform from Microsoft. It can be used to host web sites that can be used to access shared workspaces and documents, as well as specialized applications such as wikis, blogs and many other forms of applications, from within a browser.
Frontpage Hosting
Microsoft Frontpage is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and web site administration tool from Microsoft. Depending on release dates the software can require a specific frontpage web hosting plan to allow the operation of all the software functionality.
Database Hosting
Database hosting offer pre installed database applications such as MS SQL, Cold Fusion, MySQL, and many other database related applications. Database Hosting provides the power and the bandwidth to handle any database driven Web site.
Green Hosting
Green hosting providers offer buyers environmentally minded hosting solutions. Green hosts, offset their carbon footprint via investments in carbon offsetting, or through direct investment in renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar.
Data Center Hosting
A Data Center is a facility housing servers and associated components, such as telecommunications and storage systems. It generally includes redundant or backup power supplies, redundant data communications connections, environmental controls and security.
Email hosting
Email hosting services offer premium email at a cost as opposed to advertising supported free email or free webmail.
Coldfusion Web Hosting
Coldfusion web hosting provides an application server and software development framework required to develop dynamic web sites. Coldfusion Web Hosting provides the capability, for sites written using Coldfusion, of creating dynamic websites that are attached to backend databases.
Blog Hosting
Blog hosting is a service that allows for the publishing of a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Blog Hosting plans include software which enables you to easily maintain and publish regular content.
Photo hosting
A Photo hosting service allows individuals to upload images to an Internet website. Photo Hosting enables the user to share individual photographs and albums with others (whether publicly or privately).

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