Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution involves storing and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting provider. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's explore them. Doing so, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you wish to create a web site, mails, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by particular file storage providers, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are often supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between independent groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web site hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a large quantity of pictures with friends or associates since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image 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 used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your e-mail address accounts. Some firms offer web page hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to utilize as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to run a site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Webpaz, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific web content only.