Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web server administered by a website hosting vendor. There are different types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a blog, mail aliases, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by particular providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely wrong interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between different stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share an enormous quantity of images with buddies or associates since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mails. Some corporations offer web hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to get an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to utilize as many videos as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a website. To some degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email box accounts, upload video clips, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular content only.