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Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution entails depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a peek at them. Doing so, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to create a website, mails, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain vendors, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index 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 accounts frequently include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the workload between different packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a vast amount of pictures with pals or colleagues since the service is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to use as many video files as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email box accounts, upload video files, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular content solely.