Categories of hosting services

A hosting service pertains to storing and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server run by a website hosting company. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a gaze at them. In that way, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you wish to create a weblog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular firms, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting packages are often supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given amount of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally false interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between separate bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web space hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you want to share a great quantity of pictures with friends or associates since the service is usually free of charge. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to managing your mailbox accounts. Some providers provide hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you want to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to keep as many videos as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload video clips, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular web content exclusively.