Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with saving and/or sharing given content on a server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are various categories of hosting services used for various ends, so let's review them. Thus, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to build a web portal, e-mails, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain file storage providers, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are frequently supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely imprecise interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between separate stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is good if you want to share an enormous amount of images with chums or associates since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many videos as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to possess a site. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mails, upload video files, and so on. At Apple Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular content solely.