Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to hoarding and/or sharing given content on a server run by a website hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a gaze at them. In that way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you'd like to own a weblog, mails, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some hosts, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective 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 examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting services are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, 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 firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between independent stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, 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: resembling file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting type is good if you desire to share an enormous amount of images with friends or associates since the solution is usually free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your electronic mail accounts. Some distributors provide web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email solution. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes 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 a specific video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to manage as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to have a site. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At HostPlum Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared with the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular web content exclusively.