Classes of hosting services

A hosting service is associated with depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a web server managed by a hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's explore these. Thus, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to have a web portal, mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services often involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between individual sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different website hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share an immense number of images with pals or partners since the service is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your email aliases. Some companies offer site hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to utilize as many videos as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to run a website. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At Hostunlimitted.com, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific web content only.