Web hosting guide

Image hosting
This refers to the type of hosting when individual users doesn’t have personal web space and they will upload their pictures to a common website which will be mostly free or very less price and the cost incurred will be compensated by the owner of website in the form of banner advertisement. In order to have the feeling of personal website the user may be additionally provided with Subdomain [A domain name looking like my.allimage.com] customizable web template to choose from and user can password protect the image gallery if he wants some of them to be private.

Ecommerce Hosting
An ecommerce website strictly designed for the business purpose will consists of the following a catalogue to display products, shopping cart to take the order and then payment gateway to collect the payment. Apart from using the third party ecommerce packages you can go for one that comes as offer from web host the benefits are that you can use their merchant account instead of going for painstaking procedure of getting your own merchant account

Free forum hosting
These types of hosting packages allows their user to host a forum with phpBB software which is freely available they claim unlimited storage space and bandwidth however with less traffic generating forum sites doesn’t have to worry about bandwidth. In order to get back the expenses of web space and bandwidth they will be showing up some advertisement on your forum.