Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a server run by a web hosting provider. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you wish to have a blog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular firms, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support site 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 an inventory 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-of-charge file hosting services are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the tasks at hand between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given firms offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is good if you would like to share an immense amount of pictures with mates or associates since the service is generally free of charge. You will obtain a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your e-mail box accounts. Some corporations offer webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email service. If you want to own a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with several videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many video files as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At ekkhost, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular content only.