Types of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various varieties of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a glance at these. In that way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you desire to run a blog, e-mails, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by given vendors, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting services frequently involve ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain spell of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly untrue explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between different bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share an enormous amount of pics with buddies or colleagues since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to administering your e-mails. Some providers provide web page hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to manage an email address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to keep as many video files as you would like without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse compared to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific content exclusively.