Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution includes stockpiling and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting vendor. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to run a website, mail addresses, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by various providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain interval of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions 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 present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely untrue interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between independent hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a vast quantity of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to handling your mail accounts. Some corporations offer hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you desire to open an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to operate as many video files as you would like without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to possess a site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mail accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Code's Done, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific content solely.