Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service means stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server run by a hosting distributor. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a peek at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, based on whether you'd like to set up a web page, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular file storage providers, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support 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 view a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally improper explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the workload between separate packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a big quantity of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some companies offer webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you desire to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to manage as many videos as you would like without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to have a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At DuoServer.US, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular content exclusively.