Classes of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to keeping and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can decide what you need, based on whether you desire to set up a website, e-mail accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by given file storage providers, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see 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-of-charge file storage accounts are frequently supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular spell of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have 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 with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely wrong interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the tasks at hand between independent stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a huge quantity of pics with friends or acquaintances since the service is commonly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture 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 managing your email aliases. Some suppliers offer hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email service. If you wish to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to run a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mails, upload videos, etc. At Web Hosting Giants, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for specific web content exclusively.