Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with storing and/or sharing certain content on a web server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you'd like to set up a web site, mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain firms, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim 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 survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage plans are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly erroneous explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between independent groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web space hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you want to share an immense amount of pics with chums or partners since the solution is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At FaceHosting.com, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular content solely.