Categories of hosting services
A hosting solution refers to saving and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to build a website, mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.
- File hosting: a service furnished by various web hosts, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions are often supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.
These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly false explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a great quantity of images with buddies or associates since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.
- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mail box accounts. Some firms provide webspace hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to create a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create e-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 email servers.
- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many video files as you desire without hassling about system supplies.
- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to run a website. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Apple Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular content exclusively.