Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes saving and/or sharing specific content on a web server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's survey them. In that way, you can decide what you want, based on whether you'd like to create a website, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage services frequently include adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally awry interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between separate packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different webspace hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share an immense amount of pics with chums or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some firms offer website hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you desire to have a mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to run as many video files as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Chirping Cheap Hosting and Domains, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular content solely.