Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution implies stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting vendor. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a look at these. Thus, you can pick what you need, based on whether you desire to build a site, email addresses, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by some providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, 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 website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly false interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between different bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you wish to share an enormous quantity of images with chums or partners since the service is commonly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every 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 service cannot be used for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to manage as many video files as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a website. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and email accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Str Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular web content only.