Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution includes saving and/or sharing given web content on a web server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are various types of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a gaze at these. Thus, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a web site, e-mails, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some file storage providers, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage services often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between separate sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given companies provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share a huge quantity of pictures with mates or associates since the service is usually free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to managing your e-mail accounts. Some vendors offer site hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to launch an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain 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 web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to have as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email addresses, upload videos, etc. At DotMonster.ca, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular content only.