Categories of hosting services

A hosting service suggests saving and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's survey them. In this way, you can choose what you want, based on whether you desire to own a site, mail accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given hosts, which enables you to share enormous 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 offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans frequently involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific spell of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally incongruous explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between individual stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share an enormous amount of images with chums or associates since the service is mostly free of charge. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some providers provide web hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you want to open a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open email accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves 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 certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to run as many video files as you wish without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email addresses, upload video files, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse compared to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific web content solely.