Types of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to depositing and/or sharing given web content on a server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a look at them. In this way, you can decide what you need, depending on whether you desire to launch a website, email accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by some file storage providers, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between separate hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web page hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a big number of pictures with chums or colleagues since the service is usually free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some distributors offer web site hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to run as many video clips as you want without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to have a website. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email accounts, upload video files, etc. At e-brandingtools.com, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for particular content only.