Forms of hosting services

A hosting service concerns keeping and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services used for different aims, so let's survey these. Doing so, you can elect what you need, based on whether you'd like to build a website, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service provided by given providers, 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 single objective is to share files, since it does not support site 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 not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain spell of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between different bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various website hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given firms offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share a vast amount of images with buddies or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to own a website. To some degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At MD-Dot Webhosting, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific content exclusively.