Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service is related to keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a web page, email aliases, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain web hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support site 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 see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions often involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions 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.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between individual packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web page hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain distributors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you want to share a big number of pics with mates or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to run as many video files as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to possess a website. To some extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mails, upload video files, and so on. At AfterHost, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular web content exclusively.