Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns storing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server hosted by a hosting provider. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a web page, e-mails, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various web hosts, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web site 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 read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely mistaken interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between independent packs of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various webspace hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share a big quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the service is generally free of charge. 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 utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to administering your email address accounts. Some companies offer web page hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows 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 availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many video clips as you want without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a website. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email aliases, upload video files, etc. At Reliable Domain Name Registry, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular web content solely.