Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service includes saving and/or sharing certain content on a server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are various categories of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a look at these. In this way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you desire to have a weblog, email accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain companies, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage solutions are frequently supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular spell of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely inaccurate explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would share the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a huge number of images with mates or associates since the solution is typically free. You will receive a random 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 dedicated to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some distributors offer web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to get an email address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video clip in your website 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 file generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many video files as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular web content exclusively.