Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to saving and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a website hosting provider. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a peek at them. In that way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a blog, mail accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by various providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific span of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally amiss explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between independent packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a vast amount of pictures with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your mail aliases. Some vendors offer web hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email service. If you would like to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video files as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to possess a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mails, upload video files, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular content solely.