Types of hosting services

A hosting service suggests stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a peek at them. In that way, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a website, e-mails, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the workload between separate sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web site hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share a great number of images with friends or associates since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your mailbox accounts. Some companies provide hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to operate as many videos as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to possess a web site. To some degree, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At Mad about Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the typical email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content only.