Categories of hosting services

A hosting service involves storing and/or sharing given content on a web server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different ends, so let's survey them. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a site, email aliases, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various companies, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage accounts are frequently supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely awry explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between individual packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an immense amount of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the solution is usually free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer web space hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to get an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. 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 using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video files as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to own a website. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Wengerd Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular web content only.