Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service concerns keeping and/or sharing given content on a web server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various types of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can decide what you want, based on whether you'd like to establish a web portal, email addresses, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain hosts, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different website hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share a vast amount of images with pals or acquaintances since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each pic 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 used for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video files as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a web site. To some extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and mails, upload video files, and so on. At Smartway Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for specific content solely.