What is a hosting service and what is its purpose?

Hosting is a service whereby one computer configured as an Internet server offers a part of, or its whole resources, for use in exchange for a certain rental fee. Thanks to this service, one or more users can use information, services or content located on this server using another computer called client. The client uses the Internet to connect with the server and displays the desired content to the user.

What kinds of hosting services are we aware of?

Depending on the type of resources offered by an Internet server, there are various kinds of hosting the most popular and widely used of being:

Web Hosting

Web hosting is the most widespread hosting service. It allows your website assessable on the Internet 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The website itself is being hosted on a web server most often located in a specialized data center. The web server offers uninterrupted Internet connectivity, a certain set of software packages, which additional services such as e-mail, ftp, databases, as well as an environment for utilizing different programming languages such as: perl, php, java, xhtml, html and others.

File Hosting

File hosting is close to web hosting. The difference is that the server stores files, not websites and web applications. Some of the advantages of file hosting are the safe storage of information and its accessibility across the Internet all the computers with adequate transfer speed can take advantage of. It is most often used for storing and archiving chunks of data so that they are accessible from different parts of the world. Big corporations consisting of many branches often resort to file hosting, for example.