Types of hosting services

A hosting solution implies saving and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server run by a hosting company. There are various forms of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a peek at these. In this way, you can decide what you need, based on whether you desire to create a web site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by given companies, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage solutions are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incorrect explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the workload between autonomous groups of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain distributors offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an immense quantity of images with mates or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture 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 utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your mails. Some distributors offer web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you desire to possess a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open electronic 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 e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to possess a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific content only.