Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests stashing and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server handled by a hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's have a peek at them. Thus, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to own a web page, e-mail aliases, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by some firms, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site 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 read a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between different stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some vendors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a big amount of pics with pals or acquaintances since the service is commonly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to run as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a web site. To some degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload video files, etc. At Free Hostia, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular content solely.