Forms of hosting services

A hosting service is related to stashing and/or sharing certain content on a web server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a glimpse at these. In that way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you wish to have a web portal, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service distributed by certain file storage providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular amount of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally imprecise explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between separate packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share an enormous number of pics with mates or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and 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 utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some suppliers provide web site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you want to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mail address 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 files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to manage as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to have a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email addresses, upload video files, etc. At Creative Twist, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific web content solely.