Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service involves storing and/or sharing particular web content on a server handled by a hosting company. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's examine these. In this way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you wish to have a web portal, e-mail addresses, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by various file storage providers, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting plans are frequently supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given spell of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between individual hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web page hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a great number of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image 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 utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your mailbox accounts. Some distributors offer web hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you would like to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to administer as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to own a site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and email mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At Cool Enterprises Limited, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific web content solely.