Types of Internet hosting service Full-featured hosting services Virtual private server Dedicated hosting Colocation centre Web hosting Free hosting Shared hosting Clustered hosting Reseller hosting Application-specific Blog hosting Guild hosting Image hosting Video hosting Wiki farms File hosting Remote backup service Game server hosting DNS hosting E-mail hosting A file hosting service, online file storage service, or online media center is an Internet hosting service specifically designed to host static content, typically large files that are not web pages. Typically they allow web and FTP access. They can be optimized for single-user storage (as is implied by the term "storage"). Related services are video sharing, virtual storage and remote backup. Contents 1 Uses 1.1 Software file hosting 1.2 Personal file storage 1.3 Content caching 2 Storage 3 Services offered 4 See also 5 External links 6