Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to saving and/or sharing certain web content on a server administered by a website hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a peek at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you wish to establish a web page, email aliases, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose 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 explore a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally imprecise explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between different groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share an immense number of images with chums or colleagues since the solution is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your mails. Some distributors offer web hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you wish to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can open e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a site. To some degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email accounts, upload video files, etc. At YourSiteService.com, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular content solely.