Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution implies depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a peek at them. Doing so, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to have a web site, mail aliases, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution offered by various web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting accounts are often supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the load between individual hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share a vast amount of pics with friends or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your mail address accounts. Some companies provide hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to create a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to utilize as many video files as you would like without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a website. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular content only.