Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service applies to depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a web server run by a web hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's explore them. Doing so, you can pick what you want, based on whether you desire to run a web site, e-mail aliases, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service provided by given providers, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage services frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally false interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the load between individual hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web space hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a vast amount of images with chums or partners since the service is generally free. You will obtain a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your e-mail accounts. Some firms offer website hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you wish to possess a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video files as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to have a site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for specific content only.