Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution means keeping and/or sharing specific web content on a server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services used for various aims, so let's study these. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a blog, e-mail accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service furnished by various vendors, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts often include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase 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 limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inapt interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would share the workload between autonomous stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various webspace hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share a big number of pics with friends or partners since the solution is generally 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 sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mails. Some suppliers provide hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you would like to launch an email address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create email accounts and manage 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 solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many video files as you would like without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to run a web site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular web content only.