Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services used for different aims, so let's examine them. Doing so, you can elect what you want, based on whether you'd like to have a web page, email addresses, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some file storage providers, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal 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 see a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans frequently involve ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a given stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the workload between individual sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a big number of images with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated 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 utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mail addresses. Some suppliers provide hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email 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 in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to use as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a website. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific web content exclusively.