Groups of hosting services
A hosting service concerns hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting vendor. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a glance at them. Doing so, you can pick what you want, based on whether you wish to own a site, e-mail aliases, or to share files with chums and partners.
- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular hosts, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain 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 load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages often include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.
At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between individual groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a great quantity of images with mates or acquaintances since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.
- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your mail addresses. Some firms offer webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you want to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.
- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to utilize as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.
- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to run a site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email box accounts, upload videos, etc. At MD-Dot Webhosting, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content only.