Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests depositing and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you desire to launch a weblog, mails, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain file storage providers, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web site 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 see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage solutions are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely erroneous explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between independent groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share an immense amount of pics with buddies or colleagues since the service is commonly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your mail address accounts. Some vendors offer web hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you would like to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to manage as many video clips as you want without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a site. To some degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At SpacefishX, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for particular content only.