Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service suggests stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web server hosted by a website hosting company. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a look at these. Thus, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a web portal, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given web hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services often include ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between independent sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web page hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an enormous amount of pics with mates or associates since the service is usually free. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mail accounts. Some corporations offer web space hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you want to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file generates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many videos as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to run a web site. To some extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At HD Web Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific web content solely.