Forms of hosting services

A hosting service is related to keeping and/or sharing given content on a web server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you desire to launch a weblog, e-mails, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by various companies, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various webspace hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some companies offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share a big number of pics with comrades or colleagues since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image 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 websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some distributors offer hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you want to manage an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to utilize as many videos as you wish without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to have a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific content exclusively.