Groups of hosting services

A hosting service means keeping and/or sharing given content on a hosting server run by a website hosting company. There are different types of hosting services used for different aims, so let's have a gaze at them. In that way, you can elect what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a web page, mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by some web hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support 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 read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage solutions often involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between different bunches of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web space hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting type is good if you want to share a great quantity of pics with pals or partners since the solution is typically free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your email addresses. Some providers provide web hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email service. If you would like to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can set up electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a web site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At The X Net Systems, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular content solely.