Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting vendor. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's review them. In that way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to run a site, emails, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by given web hosts, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page 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 view a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage package, 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.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally improper interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would assign the tasks at hand between different stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various site hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific suppliers provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a vast number of pics with pals or associates since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mail addresses. Some companies offer web site hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many video clips as you want without bothering about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to own a site. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mailbox accounts, upload video files, etc. At 100WebSpace, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular web content exclusively.