Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution includes keeping and/or sharing specific content on a server hosted by a hosting provider. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's survey these. Thus, you can choose what you want, based on whether you'd like to have a web page, mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by particular providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. 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 obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between separate hosts of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web space hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a great amount of images with comrades or colleagues since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many video files as you want to without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a website. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At BitLife Host, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for particular web content solely.