Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to storing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a glance at these. In that way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to build a web page, e-mail addresses, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are frequently supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely twisted explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between individual stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a huge amount of images with pals or colleagues since the solution is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service committed to managing your e-mail aliases. Some distributors offer web hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to administer as many videos as you desire without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Free Hostia, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - 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 to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular web content exclusively.