Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service suggests depositing and/or sharing given web content on a server run by a web hosting provider. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a glance at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to launch a blog, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally incongruous explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the workload between independent hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you want to share a large quantity of pics with chums or associates since the service is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your electronic mail accounts. Some distributors offer website hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to keep an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to possess as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a web site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mail address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Rindie Eagle, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific content exclusively.