Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to stockpiling and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server managed by a hosting supplier. There are various kinds of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a glimpse at these. In that way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you desire to have a web page, mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by given providers, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly wrong explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between different packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a vast number of pictures with mates or associates since the solution is usually free of charge. You will receive 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 sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mail box accounts. Some firms offer web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to have as many videos as you want to without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mails, upload video clips, etc. At Innovator Host, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular content solely.