Categories of hosting services

A hosting service involves stashing and/or sharing specific web content on a server hosted by a web hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services used for different ends, so let's examine these. In that way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to set up a web portal, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by given vendors, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting services often involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely inaccurate explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the load between independent hosts of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is good if you desire to share an enormous quantity of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some firms offer web page hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many video files as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mails, upload video clips, etc. At Mission Springs Webs Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific content only.