Classes of hosting services

A hosting service involves hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a web server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's study them. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to build a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by certain hosts, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer site 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 see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are frequently supported by showing ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the workload between autonomous sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share a huge amount of pics with chums or colleagues since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to managing your mails. Some suppliers provide web page hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to keep as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a web site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared with the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for particular web content exclusively.