Types of hosting services

A hosting solution means depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to create a web site, email addresses, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some firms, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a huge number of pics with pals or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will receive a random link for each and every image 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 used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your mail aliases. Some companies offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to own as many video files as you would like without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to have a website. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific content exclusively.