Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to depositing and/or sharing given content on a web server administered by a hosting distributor. There are various types of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a glance at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a blog, mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by some providers, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between individual packs of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share an immense amount of pictures with chums or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image 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 committed to managing your mail aliases. Some firms provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to open an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many videos as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to keep a website. To some degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular web content only.