Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a web server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's study these. In this way, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to build a web site, emails, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by various vendors, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incorrect interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between different packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share a vast number of images with friends or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your e-mail accounts. Some corporations provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to launch 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 create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to run as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a web site. To some extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and emails, upload videos, and so on. At SupremeServer, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific web content exclusively.