Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to keeping and/or sharing specific web content on a web server handled by a hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a gaze at these. Doing so, you can elect what you need, based on whether you desire to create a website, email address accounts, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some vendors, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages often include ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allot the tasks at hand between different stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various site hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a big amount of pics with friends or colleagues since the solution is mostly 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 solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your email aliases. Some firms offer website hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many video clips as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At TopDomainCheck.com, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular content exclusively.