Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to saving and/or sharing particular content on a web server administered by a web hosting provider. There are various types of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a glance at them. Doing so, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you desire to establish a web site, emails, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by particular web hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are frequently supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely false explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between individual sets of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different webspace hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a vast quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the service is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your e-mail addresses. Some corporations provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you want to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many videos as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to run a web site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At DuoServer.US, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular web content exclusively.