Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service applies to saving and/or sharing particular web content on a web server hosted by a web hosting company. There are different kinds of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a glance at these. Doing so, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to build a blog, mails, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some web hosts, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely inaccurate explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between autonomous groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web page hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a huge number of pictures with buddies or partners since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your electronic mail accounts. Some vendors offer web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email solution. If you desire to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail 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 some video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to own as many videos as you want without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to run a website. To some extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 9 Cube Hosting, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular content exclusively.