Types of hosting services

A hosting service concerns saving and/or sharing particular web content on a server managed by a hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a look at these. Doing so, you can choose what you need, based on whether you'd like to set up a website, email addresses, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some vendors, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are frequently supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get 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 in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely distorted explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the workload between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different website hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a great quantity of pictures with chums or acquaintances since the solution is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your email addresses. Some companies provide website hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you desire to keep an email address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many videos as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email address accounts, upload video files, etc. At Seo Business Hosting, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content solely.