Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests stashing and/or sharing particular content on a server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a look at them. In this way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to set up a site, mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain companies, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support 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 examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, 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 retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inappropriate interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the load between separate bunches of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a large number of pics with chums or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to tackling your mails. Some firms offer web site hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to create a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a web site. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and emails, upload video files, and so on. At Domain Control Network, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse compared to the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific web content solely.