Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies saving and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a website hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to own a site, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by certain companies, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions often include adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally amiss explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between separate bunches of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a huge quantity of images with buddies or partners since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mail aliases. Some firms provide web space hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many video files as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to own a website. To some extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific content only.