Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting distributor. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's have a look at them. In this way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you wish to create a web site, mail aliases, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service provided by particular web hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer web 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 see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the load between independent groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share a large quantity of images with comrades or colleagues since the service is usually free of cost. You will obtain a random 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 used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to managing your e-mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many videos as you would like without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a website. To some degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Episcopal Hosting Services, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific content exclusively.