Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution entails stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a look at these. In that way, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you desire to launch a weblog, e-mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by particular file storage providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose 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 list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans frequently involve ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely amiss interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between individual sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a huge quantity of pictures with mates or associates since the solution is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mail aliases. Some suppliers offer hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you desire to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a website. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At Gambling Site Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for specific web content solely.