Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service involves stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a peek at these. In this way, you can pick what you need, based on whether you'd like to build a web site, mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roster 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 file hosting packages are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess 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 as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely inaccurate explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the tasks at hand between different bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share a vast number of images with mates or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your e-mails. Some distributors provide web space hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to create an email address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to keep a website. To some extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At TangoWW, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific web content only.