Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns stashing and/or sharing specific web content on a server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a web site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by given hosts, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly wrong interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between individual stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different webspace hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a vast number of images with chums or acquaintances since the solution is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your email addresses. Some firms provide webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to launch an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can open e-mail address accounts and administer 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 enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many video files as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to have a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Supreme Hosting, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for particular content only.