Types of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with stashing and/or sharing particular content on a web server administered by a hosting company. There are different varieties of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you desire to own a site, e-mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular firms, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction 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 modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different webspace hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share a vast quantity of pictures with mates or partners since the service is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your e-mail addresses. Some distributors offer website hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you want to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many video files as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to possess a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At WebCenter Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific web content exclusively.