Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service concerns stashing and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting company. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can decide what you need, based on whether you desire to build a site, email box accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service provided by certain web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as 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 table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous webspace hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share an enormous amount of pictures with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your mail addresses. Some suppliers offer website hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to have as many videos as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At e-brandingtools.com, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular web content exclusively.