Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different ends, so let's explore these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a web page, email addresses, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by various hosts, which enables 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 single goal is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view 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 web browser. Free file storage solutions often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the load between different hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share an enormous amount of pics with friends or colleagues since the solution is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some suppliers provide webspace hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many videos as you want to without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to run a website. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular content only.