Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service refers to keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server handled by a hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services used for different ends, so let's review these. In that way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to launch a web page, email aliases, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by various vendors, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions 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.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely mistaken interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between independent bunches of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share an enormous quantity of pics with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your mail aliases. Some suppliers offer hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you wish to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up mail accounts and manage 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 service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to keep as many video files as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to have a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At WebWorx Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular content only.