Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution includes hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server run by a website hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to run a site, e-mail accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various vendors, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific spell of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit with regard 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 fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between independent bunches of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific providers offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share a great number of images with buddies or partners since the solution is typically free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your mail address accounts. Some corporations provide site hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many videos as you want to without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to have a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Thexyz Inc, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for particular web content only.