Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service means hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a gaze at them. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a site, email aliases, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by given firms, which lets you 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 sole goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a given span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allot the tasks at hand between different hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a large amount of images with friends or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to managing your email addresses. Some firms provide hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you wish to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to run as many video files as you want without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a website. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email box accounts, upload video files, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content only.