Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with keeping and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a gaze at them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a site, e-mail accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by particular web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally awry interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between separate hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web space hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you would like to share a great number of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mail box accounts. Some firms provide web site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to keep as many videos as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to have a website. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Domain Hostess Web Services, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular web content solely.