Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution is connected with hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a server handled by a web hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's explore them. In that way, you can decide what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a web portal, email box accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file storage plans often involve ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the workload between independent hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you desire to share a huge amount of images with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your e-mailbox accounts. Some firms provide webspace hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many video files as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse compared to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular content exclusively.