Types of hosting services

A hosting service is related to saving and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a glance at these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a website, e-mail accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given companies, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions 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.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between separate packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web page hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some providers offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share a huge amount of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is usually free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service committed to administering your email addresses. Some firms provide web site hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to possess a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many videos as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to have a site. To some degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Cmstechovation Enterprise, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for specific content exclusively.