Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution involves stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a server run by a hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a peek at them. Doing so, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to launch a website, mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some firms, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would split the workload between independent packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a big quantity of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated 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 service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your email addresses. Some suppliers offer web page hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you wish to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can open email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you want without bothering about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At DHS, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular web content only.