Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies depositing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are various types of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a look at these. In that way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you wish to set up a website, mail aliases, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim 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 examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file storage services frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inappropriate interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between independent stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a big number of pics with pals or associates since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every pic 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 used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your e-mail address accounts. Some corporations offer hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service 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 file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video files as you would like without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a web site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At YourSiteService.com, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content only.