Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution involves depositing and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server managed by a hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a blog, mail addresses, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain firms, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally 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 not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a given span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between independent stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a vast number of images with comrades or partners since the solution is generally free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your email addresses. Some suppliers provide web site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open 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 e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many videos as you would like without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to have a website. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At World Site Host, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular web content solely.