Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a gaze at these. In this way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to establish a web site, e-mail aliases, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support website 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 read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans often involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions 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.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between individual hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share a great amount of images with comrades or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mail addresses. Some providers offer website hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you want to create a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to administer as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At hosting-people, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for specific content only.