Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service entails depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting provider. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. In that way, you can elect what you want, based on whether you'd like to create a weblog, mail aliases, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by particular file storage providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inappropriate interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the tasks at hand between separate hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a huge quantity of images with chums or associates since the service is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your email mailbox accounts. Some providers provide hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you desire to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to operate as many video files as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to have a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for specific content exclusively.