Groups of hosting services

A hosting service concerns depositing and/or sharing specific content on a server handled by a web hosting provider. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different goals, so let's survey them. In that way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to own a site, mail addresses, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some firms, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between individual groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various website hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given providers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share an enormous amount of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is generally free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your mail addresses. Some companies provide site hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you desire to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many video files as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Free Hostia, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular content only.