Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution entails hoarding and/or sharing certain web content on a server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's study these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a website, email address accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by various firms, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services frequently involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely improper explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between independent groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a vast quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and 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 tackling your e-mail aliases. Some corporations provide web page hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail address 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many videos as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a website. To some degree, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At PC Aid Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared to the typical email/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific content exclusively.