Types of hosting services

A hosting service refers to saving and/or sharing particular web content on a server hosted by a web hosting distributor. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's survey them. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to run a website, e-mail aliases, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some companies, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the tasks at hand between independent bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web page hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you would like to share an immense quantity of pics with chums or colleagues since the service is usually free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your mails. Some providers provide web site hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many videos as you want to without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 360WEBHOSTS.com, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific content only.