Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to saving and/or sharing particular web content on a server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a peek at them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to set up a web page, email accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given firms, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain span 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 limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the tasks at hand between different sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a big quantity of pics with comrades or colleagues since the service is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your electronic mail accounts. Some vendors provide web page hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to manage as many videos as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a web site. To some extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload video files, and so on. At Hosting tube, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular web content solely.