Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution includes stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server handled by a website hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a gaze at them. In this way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you desire to set up a website, e-mail accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain file storage providers, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting accounts often include adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific interval of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would split the tasks at hand between independent bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a vast number of images with friends or acquaintances since the solution is generally free. You will obtain a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many video files as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific content exclusively.