Classes of hosting services

A hosting service involves storing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can elect what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a site, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by given file storage providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given spell of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would split the tasks at hand between separate groups of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain distributors offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share an immense number of images with buddies or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mail aliases. Some corporations offer website hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many videos as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to run a site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and electronic mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific content solely.