Forms of hosting services

A hosting service is related to stashing and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services used for various aims, so let's review them. In that way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to have a weblog, mail accounts, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution provided by given hosts, which allows you to share enormous 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 objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given spell of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the workload between separate hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share an enormous quantity of pictures with friends or associates since the service is generally free. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your email box accounts. Some distributors offer site hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you wish to have an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

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

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to own a web site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and emails, upload video files, etc. At Free Hostia, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content exclusively.