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Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a peek at these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to create a web site, email address accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some providers, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created 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 not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between different stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share an immense amount of images with mates or colleagues since the service is generally free. You will get a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your emails. Some distributors offer site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to manage an email address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to possess as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a web site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for particular web content exclusively.