Types of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to stashing and/or sharing specific content on a server handled by a web hosting provider. There are various types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's study these. Thus, you can decide what you need, depending on whether you'd like to build a web page, e-mails, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some firms, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as 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 not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are often supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the workload between different bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is good if you wish to share an immense quantity of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mail addresses. Some vendors offer web site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you wish to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to operate as many videos as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to have a website. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At Wantok Web Hosting, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific web content solely.