Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution entails keeping and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a web page, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service provided by various hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated 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 be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting services are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely amiss explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between independent sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an immense amount of images with pals or acquaintances since the solution is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image 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 utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your mail address accounts. Some corporations provide web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to run a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create email accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes 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 particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to have as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a web site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At Alltype Hosting, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific web content only.