Types of hosting services

A hosting solution entails keeping and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a peek at these. In that way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to own a web portal, email addresses, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given companies, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record 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-charge file hosting services frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the workload between individual groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various site hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a large number of pics with comrades or associates since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your email accounts. Some firms provide web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you want to open a mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video clips as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to run a web site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and electronic mail accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular web content only.