Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to stashing and/or sharing particular content on a web server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a glimpse at these. In that way, you can elect what you need, based on whether you wish to establish a web portal, mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by certain vendors, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans are often supported by showing ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allot the load between different groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share a huge number of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each 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 solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your email addresses. Some distributors provide web space hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to possess as many video files as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to own a site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At AIDA Host, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular content solely.