Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to keeping and/or sharing certain content on a web server handled by a web hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's have a gaze at these. Thus, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to run a weblog, e-mail addresses, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by certain hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, 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 support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roll 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 adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between different bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is good if you want to share a big quantity of images with pals or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your emails. Some providers provide web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you desire to open a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many video files as you wish without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to possess a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Creative Republic, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the typical email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular content exclusively.