Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service means stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a glimpse at them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a web site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given file storage providers, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly false explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between different stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different website hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain suppliers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a vast number of pictures with pals or partners since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email box accounts. Some companies offer webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you desire to have a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to have a web site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular content only.