Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests saving and/or sharing particular content on a web server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various varieties of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a glance at these. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a web site, mails, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific spell of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the load between different stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a vast quantity of images with chums or associates since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your e-mail aliases. Some providers provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you desire to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many video files as you want without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email accounts, upload videos, etc. At Heartland Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific web content solely.