Some of the different types of hosting are as follows:

• Free hosting: This is generally offered to individuals with various restrictions like lesser space, ads on your site etc. Still, most people get their start via free web hosting.
• Shared hosting: A number of sites are placed on the same server. Major problem with this that if there is some problem with one site, it can bring all of the sites down. Shared hosting also brings with it some restrictions regarding what exactly can be done, although these restrictions are nowhere near as restrictive as for free hosting.
• Reseller hosting: It is for the resellers who want to become web hosts. They can get a large amount of space and bandwidth that can be divided up among as many sites as the user wants to put on his account. A reseller account is placed on the same server with other reseller accounts, just like with shared hosting but there are fewer accounts.
• Virtual Private Server hosting: Virtual Private Server technology enables one physical server to house several Virtual Environments which behave exactly like an isolated stand-alone server.
• Dedicated hosting: With dedicated hosting, one gets a server of one's own. They have no restrictions, except for those designed to maintain the integrity of the Web host's network (for instance, banning sites with adult content due to the increase risk of attack by hackers and grey legal issues for the ISP).