Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service entails stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's have a look at them. In that way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a web page, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by certain firms, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages often include ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain spell of time to see 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 restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the load between separate sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different website hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given companies offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share an enormous amount of images with chums or partners since the service is commonly free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail addresses. Some distributors provide web hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to run an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many video clips as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific web content only.