Types of hosting services
A hosting solution applies to storing and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a web hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's review them. In that way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a website, email box accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.
- File hosting: a solution provided by given companies, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.
At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally improper interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between individual sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.
- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is good if you desire to share a vast number of pictures with comrades or partners since the service is usually free. You will get a randomly generated 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 dedicated to taking care of your emails. Some suppliers provide webspace hosting services for websites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to open an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.
- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to use as many video clips as you want without worrying about system resources.
- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to have a website. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mails, upload video files, etc. At Hostpanel, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for particular web content exclusively.