Types of hosting services

A hosting service applies to stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server administered by a hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a glance at them. In that way, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you desire to create a web page, mail aliases, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution offered by particular providers, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various webspace hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given firms offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a vast quantity of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the service is commonly free. You will get a random link for 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 used for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to keep as many videos as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a website. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email addresses, upload video files, etc. At ITechnology, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for particular content solely.