Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution implies storing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server handled by a web hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's take a gaze at them. Doing so, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you'd like to own a site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various providers, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage plans often include ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely mistaken explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share an immense number of pictures with chums or colleagues since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to handling your email box accounts. Some firms provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to create an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a website. To a certain degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At CPanel, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific web content only.