Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution entails keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a server handled by a website hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's survey them. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a web site, emails, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service provided by some vendors, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive 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 open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given span of time to view them. A given 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.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely wrong interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the workload between autonomous hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an immense quantity of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for each and every 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 pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your mail accounts. Some vendors offer web space hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you desire to get an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to run as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to own a web site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload videos, etc. At yourWEBit, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular content solely.