Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service applies to saving and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a gaze at them. Thus, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a blog, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by given firms, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage services are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given spell of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between different stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web site hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a great quantity of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every 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 solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer web space hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email service. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP 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 clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to keep as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a site. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email address accounts, upload video files, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content solely.