Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution means stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a server handled by a website hosting company. There are different classes of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a peek at them. Doing so, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to create a site, mails, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular firms, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site 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 read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting packages frequently include adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly awry interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between independent hosts of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web space hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share a big amount of pics with chums or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your e-mail aliases. Some vendors provide web site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email solution. If you desire to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to manage as many videos as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to have a website. To some degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At True Cloud Hosting, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular content solely.