Types of hosting services

A hosting service is associated with stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server handled by a hosting vendor. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a gaze at them. In this way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to set up a web page, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various vendors, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution 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 an accidentally 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 not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would split the load between autonomous groups of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various website hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is good if you want to share an immense amount of pics with pals or colleagues since the solution is commonly free. You will obtain a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to managing your electronic mail accounts. Some suppliers provide web hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you desire to manage an email address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open email accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a website. To some degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Sonic Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific web content only.