Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a web server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a gaze at them. Doing so, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you wish to build a web site, email addresses, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by some web hosts, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are frequently supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular span of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely imprecise explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between different groups of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a huge amount of pictures with friends or colleagues since the service is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently 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 committed to managing your e-mail aliases. Some companies provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you would like to get a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many video files as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to have a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Baughman Hosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular content exclusively.