Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with stashing and/or sharing given web content on a web server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a peek at them. In this way, you can choose what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a web site, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some web hosts, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website 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 survey an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely wrong explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between independent packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various website hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a big quantity of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free. You will obtain 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 compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to handling your e-mail address accounts. Some corporations provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email solution. If you wish to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution 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 files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to manage as many video files as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At Speedy Mice, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific content exclusively.