Categories of hosting services

A hosting service concerns storing and/or sharing specific content on a web server managed by a hosting vendor. There are different types of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a look at them. In this way, you can pick what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a blog, email accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various companies, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions are often supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between separate packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a large quantity of pics with comrades or associates since the service is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your e-mail address accounts. Some firms offer web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to keep an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will permit you to keep as many video files as you would like without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to possess a site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email box accounts, upload video files, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular web content exclusively.