Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting vendor. There are different classes of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a glance at them. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a web page, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain hosts, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive 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 be unable to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage services often involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no limits 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 the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally amiss interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the workload between autonomous bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a huge number of pics with chums or partners since the service is commonly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your mail address accounts. Some providers provide hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you desire to possess an email address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to use as many videos as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a website. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At WebNut2Go.net, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular web content exclusively.