Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution involves depositing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server managed by a hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's review these. Thus, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you wish to build a website, mails, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by various providers, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the workload between separate groups of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share an enormous quantity of pictures with pals or partners since the service is usually free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .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 mail address accounts. Some vendors offer website hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you desire to get a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many video files as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to have a web site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At webflask, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific web content solely.