Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to hoarding and/or sharing given content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a glimpse at them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to build a weblog, mail address accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by certain hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are often supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between autonomous stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web site hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you want to share a large quantity of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of cost. You will get a random 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 supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your email address accounts. Some distributors offer webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to administer as many videos as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Key4Hosting.com, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular web content only.