Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with storing and/or sharing certain content on a server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various categories of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to build a website, email aliases, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inapt explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between autonomous packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a great number of pics with chums or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to administering your mail address accounts. Some suppliers offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to run a site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At 100WebSpace, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for specific content only.