Varieties of hosting services

A hosting solution entails stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a server managed by a website hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services used for different aims, so let's explore them. Thus, you can pick what you want, based on whether you desire to own a web page, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by given firms, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support 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 read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the load between individual stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a vast amount of images with friends or associates since the service is typically free. You will obtain a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your email address accounts. Some firms provide web hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you would like to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create 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 allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many video files as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to own a website. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific web content solely.