Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves saving and/or sharing specific web content on a server hosted by a web hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's explore them. In this way, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to own a weblog, emails, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain vendors, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions frequently include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the load between autonomous hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share a big amount of pics with buddies or colleagues since the solution is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service committed to handling your emails. Some suppliers provide site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you would like to have an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to operate as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to possess a site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At hostingdad, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific content only.