Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service means stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server hosted by a hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a glance at them. Doing so, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to establish a weblog, mail accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by some hosts, which allows you to share bulky 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 web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific spell of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inaccurate explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between individual packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a big number of images with pals or colleagues since the solution is commonly free. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your email box accounts. Some vendors provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you desire to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to use as many videos as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to have a website. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Exon Hosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific content exclusively.