Classes of hosting services

A hosting service applies to hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can elect what you need, based on whether you'd like to launch a web site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by particular providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support 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 roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly mistaken explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between independent groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a vast amount of pictures with mates or colleagues since the solution is typically free. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to administering your email address accounts. Some corporations offer web site hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to open a mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to have as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to have a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At Ecommerce Hosting Solutions, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular web content only.