Categories of hosting services

A hosting service is related to hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server handled by a hosting company. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to create a web portal, mail accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by some companies, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated 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 be unable to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage plans are frequently supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally false explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between separate packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different website hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share a great quantity of pics with comrades or colleagues since the service is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic 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.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mail box accounts. Some vendors provide web site hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to open an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, 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 enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many video clips as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to own a site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific web content only.