Classes of hosting solutions
A hosting service means saving and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can decide what you need, based on whether you desire to create a blog, mail accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.
- File hosting: a service furnished by given providers, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting accounts are often supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, 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 vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the workload between different sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web site hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share an immense quantity of images with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.
- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some companies provide website hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you desire to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.
- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to own as many videos as you wish without hassling about system resources.
- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a web site. To some extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At webmailserver, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content solely.