Types of hosting services

A hosting solution includes stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a peek at these. In that way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you wish to run a site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by various firms, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register 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 hosting services are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely amiss explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share a great number of pictures with friends or partners since the service is commonly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your e-mails. Some suppliers offer web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to create a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to possess as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to have a site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At SupremeServer, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular content exclusively.