Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution means stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a server administered by a hosting supplier. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a glimpse at them. Thus, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to create a weblog, emails, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by some vendors, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages often involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely false interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the workload between independent packs of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a huge quantity of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the service is usually free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your mail addresses. Some corporations offer web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to possess an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can create mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail 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 a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many video files as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to run a web site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular content exclusively.