Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service applies to stockpiling and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server managed by a hosting provider. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. Thus, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to create a blog, email addresses, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various hosts, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support website 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 view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage plans often involve ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inappropriate explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between different groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web site hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a vast quantity of images with comrades or colleagues since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your email accounts. Some providers offer web space hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to own a site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mails, upload videos, etc. At Business In The Black, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular content solely.