Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service is related to depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server run by a website hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to run a web portal, mails, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by particular firms, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page 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 explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are frequently supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain amount of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely untrue explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between individual packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a large amount of pictures with comrades or associates since the solution is generally free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to handling your mail address accounts. Some vendors offer website hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you would like to run an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open e-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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to administer as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Divine Creations, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular web content solely.