Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution involves saving and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's study them. Doing so, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to have a web site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by particular hosts, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are frequently supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the load between different groups of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given providers offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share an enormous quantity of pics with pals or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to managing your email addresses. Some distributors provide website hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to get an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can set up e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to have as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a website. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and emails, upload video clips, and so on. At Uni-Bz, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific content exclusively.