Types of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a look at them. In that way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you desire to build a website, email aliases, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular companies, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage services are often supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the workload between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given corporations provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous number of images with chums or partners since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your mailbox accounts. Some companies offer website hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you would like to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open e-mail address 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to own as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to run a website. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At Universal-Hosting, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular content only.