Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution is connected with keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web server handled by a hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services used for different goals, so let's review these. In that way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you wish to create a web site, e-mail accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by given file storage providers, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between separate hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web page hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous amount of pictures with chums or colleagues since the service is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your emails. Some providers offer web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you would like to create a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many videos as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular web content exclusively.