Different types of Shared Hosting are specialised for their services for the proper functioning of a website. The website owner mostly choose to spread the hosting of the services of their website for extra redundancy as mostly the websites are found â€mission critical’ who want to minimise the downtime amount as much as they can, and cannot afford a dedicated or clustered web hosting plan. Also, these types of shared hosting plans allow people to host only what they need to host. For instance, if a customer only needs email hosting and not website hosting, he can simple choose a shared email hosting plan matching his specifications. Some of the well-known forms of Shared Hosting are as follows: Application-specific Web Hosting †This type of shared hosting only caters to specific website applications or website categories, such as blogs, images, video hosting. People who want to host their websites making use of either of these categories, can benefit the most from the Application-specific Web Hosting. It comes in both free as well as paid forms, each having its own advantages. However, the free version may have more advertisements stamped all over them, making the website look ugly and so the environment. Game Server Hosting †Game Server Hosting is particularly used by players to host league table matches being played online. Sometimes also referred to as â€Listen Servers’, game servers and its clients run on the same virtual machine, though the players are limited to a certain number to play on the server at a given point of time, owing to bandwidth and CPU usage restrictions, which can also be witnessed in case of a dedicated server. Games servers are basically hosted on a shared environment to ease down the bandwidth and CPU usage issues within each physical server, and so that all types of games can also be played by users from across different parts of the world without any disruptions. File Hosting †This type of shared hosting is particularly used by people to take the backup of data on their home PC or the one contained either within their shared hosting account or their dedicated or VPS server. In case of file hosting, the user do not need a domain as the file transfer takes place either via a web-based control or FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The storage space assigned to the user for the hosting of files is generally measured in terms of gigabytes (GB) due to the size of the files mostly stored by users to take the backup of. However, sometime back, the total amount of space that was allocated to the users used to be measured in terms of megabytes (MB). Email Hosting †It allows the user to setup and configure email accounts with the DNS servers and a control panel for the purchased domain, but does not host the website. Email hosting is generally referred by people for emailing purpose, or if they want to host the websites elsewhere for better redundancy. Also, this type of hosting supports extra mail services provided by another hosting company that are not available on the user’s existing hosting plan. DNS Hosting †Under Domain Hosting, only the DNS records for a particular domain are held in a DNS zone, which also consists of the data for use by other computers and servers on the Internet for communication with the servers. It allows its customers to take the charge of their domain without having the need to purchase a hosting account.
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