Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to saving and/or sharing given content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a peek at them. In this way, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to create a web page, emails, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by given hosts, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get 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 web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans are often supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly false interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the workload between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a vast quantity of pics with pals or acquaintances since the service is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email accounts. Some providers offer web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to have as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to own a website. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload videos, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for specific web content solely.