Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a hosting server managed by a hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's have a glimpse at them. In that way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a website, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by various providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions are often supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely false interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the workload between separate bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given firms offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a big number of images with mates or acquaintances since the service is mostly free. You will get a random link for each and every image 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 utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your mails. Some corporations offer hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to launch an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a website. To some extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content only.