Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with keeping and/or sharing given content on a web server hosted by a hosting company. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a glance at these. In that way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a site, e-mails, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service distributed by particular hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 table 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-cost file hosting services are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the workload between autonomous bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various site hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a vast number of images with mates or associates since the solution is usually free of charge. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mail box accounts. Some vendors offer website hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email solution. If you would like to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution 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 videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to keep as many videos as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Blue Grape Designs Web Host, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific web content solely.