Forms of hosting services

A hosting service involves saving and/or sharing certain web content on a server administered by a hosting distributor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a peek at them. In that way, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to have a web site, e-mail aliases, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by given hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own 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 when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would share the load between individual groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is good if you desire to share a great number of pics with chums or associates since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer site hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves 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 some video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to administer as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email address accounts, upload video files, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limits based on the form 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 website hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular content only.