Types of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to saving and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a website hosting company. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a peek at them. In this way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a web page, e-mail accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain file storage providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would split the load between separate groups of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some companies provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a huge quantity of pictures with mates or associates since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your mails. Some distributors offer site hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to create a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many video files as you would like without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a web site. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Free Hostia, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular web content exclusively.