Types of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a web server handled by a web hosting distributor. There are different forms of hosting services used for different goals, so let's survey them. In this way, you can choose what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a site, e-mails, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain providers, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table 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 file storage services often involve ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific span of time to see 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 immediately, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between different stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share an immense quantity of pics with chums or colleagues since the service is generally free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to handling your email mailbox accounts. Some companies provide webspace hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to have as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to run a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At Green Data Hosting, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content only.