Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a server administered by a web hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a peek at them. Doing so, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you desire to own a web portal, email addresses, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular web hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage solutions frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the load between different sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a large number of pics with pals or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mail addresses. Some firms offer web page hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you wish to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many video files as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a website. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At HD Web Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared to the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific content exclusively.