Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with storing and/or sharing given content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting company. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's examine these. In this way, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a weblog, emails, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by particular hosts, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, 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 wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inappropriate interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between individual groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share an enormous number of pictures with pals or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every 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 service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your email addresses. Some firms offer web page hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes 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 some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to manage as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to keep a web site. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and email accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular web content solely.