Forms of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server handled by a web hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a gaze at these. Doing so, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you desire to run a web site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service distributed by particular vendors, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are often supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between separate hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a big number of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the solution is generally free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some companies provide web hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to own as many videos as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to have a website. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At Inspireweb, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content only.