Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with hoarding and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a peek at these. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a weblog, mail aliases, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by given companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely twisted interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would split the tasks at hand between independent hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a big number of images with chums or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your email mailbox accounts. Some providers offer website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you would like to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables 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 web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many video clips as you would like without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to possess a site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Web Hosting Giants, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for specific web content exclusively.