Classes of hosting services

A hosting service includes stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a server run by a web hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's examine them. Doing so, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to have a web page, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by given firms, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain spell of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, 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.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allot the load between different groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web page hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a big number of pictures with pals or associates since the service is typically free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your mail addresses. Some companies offer website hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you desire to set up an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to administer as many videos as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific content only.