Free web hosting service
It is a free of cost web hosting service and frequently advertisement-supported and of limited features. It will either provide a sub-domain (yoursite.example.com) or a directory on host’s site (www.example.com/~yourname).

Shared web hosting service
Here your web site is hosted on the same server where many other sites are their, ranging from a few to hundreds or more. Usually, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU.

Reseller web hosting
Reseller can be a web host by selling shared web hosting packages to its clients. Resellers can function as personal domain, by any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a supplier. Resellers’ accounts may vary tremendously in size as they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a co-located server.

Virtual Dedicated Server
A virtual private server is a method of dividing a physical server computer into multiple servers that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. The practice of slicing up a single server so that it appears as multiple servers has been common practice in computers, but has seen reappearance lately with the development of virtualization software and technologies for other architectures.

Dedicated hosting service
In Fully Managed hosting client gets his own web server and gains full control over it; however, the user typically does not own the server. Where in Self-Managed or Unmanaged hosting the user has complete administrative access to the server, that means the customer is accountable for the security and safeguarding of his own dedicated server.

Managed hosting service
The client gets his own web server on lease but is not allowed full control over it; though they are allowed to control their data via FTP or other remote management tools. The client is not allowed full control so that the provider can assure quality of service by means of not allowing the user to change the server or potentially create configuration problems.

Co-location web hosting service
It is more or less similar to the dedicated web hosting service, here the user has his colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and concern about the server. This is the most dominant and expensive type of the web hosting service. In the majority cases, the co-location provider may provide little or indirect support for customers machine by providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server.

Clustered hosting
Clustered hosting is nothing but having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization. It eliminates the problems inbuilt with typical shared hosting infrastructures. It provides clients with a “clustered” handling of security, load balancing, and necessary website resources. A clustered hosting platform is data-driven (no human interaction is needed to condition a new account to the platform).

File hosting service
In file hosting files are hosted in place of web pages. Online file storage service is an Internet hosting service planned to host static content, typically large files that are not web pages through web and FTP access. File hosting service can be optimized for serving many users or optimized for single-user storage. Some file hosting services are video sharing, virtual storage and remote backup.

Image hosting service
It allow individual to upload images to an image host website. The uploaded image then stored onto image host server and shows the individual codes, which allow others to view that image. With the popularity of blogs, forums, auctions, and other interactive pages, image hosting services have become extremely popular among end users.

Video hosting service
It is also called as a video sharing which allows persons to upload video clips to a video host website, where it gets stored with the individual different types of code to allow others to view that video. Some examples of video hosts are Yahoo! Video, YouYube, Myspace etc.

Blog hosting service
Many weblog applications are accessible for users to download and install on their own systems. A extensive list of licenses are used by consumer hosted weblog software. Some of these are open-source software that can be used, modified, and redistributed freely, with no usage restrictions. Others are proprietary software that may be licensed for a fee or have versions available free of charge.

One-click hosting
Web service which allows internet users to easily upload one or more files from their hard drives onto the one-click host’s server free of charge. Mostly such services simply return a URL which can be given to other people, who can then fetch the file later on. Some internet forums exist in order to share such links; this type of file sharing has to a degree taken over from P2P filesharing services.