Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests depositing and/or sharing given content on a hosting server hosted by a hosting company. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a glance at these. Doing so, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to create a web site, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given web hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are frequently supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally inappropriate interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the workload between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some providers provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share an enormous number of pictures with chums or acquaintances since the service is commonly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your email aliases. Some firms provide website hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email solution. If you wish to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email 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 some video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email accounts, upload video files, etc. At Galloway Web Hosting, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific web content exclusively.