Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a web server run by a website hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's explore them. Thus, you can choose what you want, based on whether you'd like to establish a site, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain hosts, which allows you to share enormous 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 purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get 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 be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between autonomous bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share an enormous amount of pics with comrades or associates since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your e-mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you wish to run a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many video clips as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Linux Hosts Inc., for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific web content solely.