Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's survey them. In that way, you can choose what you want, based on whether you desire to create a site, email box accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service delivered by various companies, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions frequently include ads next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain spell of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally imprecise interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the load between separate bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some providers provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is good if you desire to share a large quantity of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some providers offer web page hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you want to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail 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 clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to manage as many video files as you wish without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to possess a website. To some degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email aliases, upload videos, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular content solely.