Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution means storing and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server run by a website hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a look at them. Thus, you can determine what you need, based on whether you wish to set up a web site, e-mail accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by various file storage providers, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely improper explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web space hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share a large number of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your mail accounts. Some firms offer website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you desire to launch an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to manage as many videos as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, etc. At Why Pay More Web Hosting, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular content solely.