Forms of hosting services

A hosting service refers to storing and/or sharing specific content on a web server handled by a website hosting company. There are different varieties of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a peek at them. In that way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you wish to launch a web portal, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by given file storage providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created 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 not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage services frequently include ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely unsuitable explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between individual sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web site hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share an enormous quantity of images with friends or partners since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your mail aliases. Some suppliers offer web site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you would like to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up electronic mail accounts and administer 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 permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to administer as many video files as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to own a web site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content solely.