Classes of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a site, mails, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by some companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific interval of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the tasks at hand between independent bunches of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share an immense amount of images with pals or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will get a random link for each image 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 web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your email box accounts. Some distributors provide site hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to use as many video files as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to have a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular web content solely.