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Types of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a web server hosted by a hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's explore them. In that way, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you wish to have a web portal, mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain vendors, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support website 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 see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between separate sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web space hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you wish to share an enormous amount of pics with pals or associates since the solution is usually free of cost. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mails. Some companies provide web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you wish to own a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to own as many videos as you wish without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a website. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular content exclusively.