Forms of hosting services

A hosting service refers to stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's review them. In this way, you can pick what you want, based on whether you desire to run a web page, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the load between separate hosts of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a great quantity of images with comrades or partners since the service is commonly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently 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 service committed to tackling your email address accounts. Some corporations provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you wish to get a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with several videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many videos as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to possess a site. To some extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload videos, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular content solely.