Types of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with storing and/or sharing given web content on a web server run by a website hosting distributor. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a peek at them. In that way, you can choose what you want, based on whether you wish to run a website, e-mail addresses, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain file storage providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage packages are frequently supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations 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.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the load between different packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given companies offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share a huge amount of pictures with buddies or partners since the solution is usually free. You will obtain a randomly generated 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 supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your mails. Some corporations provide web site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you would like to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many videos as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To some degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular content exclusively.