Types of hosting services

A hosting service suggests stashing and/or sharing certain content on a server managed by a website hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a glance at them. In that way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a site, email address accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain hosts, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inappropriate explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the workload between individual groups of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given corporations provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share an enormous number of images with chums or acquaintances since the service is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many videos as you would like without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At WebWorx Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific web content solely.