Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to storing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting distributor. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's have a peek at these. In this way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a website, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts often include adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally awry interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between independent bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different website hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some companies offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a large number of pictures with friends or colleagues since the solution is mostly free. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your electronic mail accounts. Some distributors offer web site hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you desire to own an email address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to keep as many videos as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to run a website. To some extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At Number One Hosting Company, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific web content only.