Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to storing and/or sharing given web content on a web server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's review these. In that way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to have a web portal, emails, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by various hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely distorted interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the workload between autonomous stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain firms offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a great number of images with comrades or associates since the service is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every image 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 utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your email addresses. Some firms provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you wish to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many video files as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a site. To some degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for particular web content only.