Categories of hosting services

A hosting service suggests stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web server run by a web hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's review them. In that way, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a web portal, mail aliases, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various companies, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans often include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, 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 suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the workload between autonomous sets of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a huge number of pictures with pals or partners since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mail accounts. Some distributors offer hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open email mailbox 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many video files as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to own a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific content only.