Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service is connected with depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are different types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a peek at these. Thus, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to build a website, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by given companies, which allows you to share bulky 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 function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the workload between different hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share a large quantity of images with pals or partners since the service is typically free. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mails. Some providers provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you want to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many video files as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to own a website. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At WebHostNinja, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular content solely.