Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns saving and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a glance at them. In that way, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you'd like to run a blog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service provided by certain firms, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage solutions frequently include ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between individual sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web space hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a huge amount of pictures with chums or partners since the service is generally free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and 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 service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your e-mail aliases. Some firms offer web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to possess as many videos as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At Hosting for All, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific web content only.