Classes of hosting services

A hosting service implies saving and/or sharing given content on a server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a glance at them. Thus, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you desire to create a web site, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by various firms, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages often involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a specific period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between autonomous hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given firms offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share a huge amount of pics with pals or associates since the solution is typically free. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your e-mail aliases. Some providers provide web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to have an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a website. To some degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email aliases, upload video files, and so on. At FireStar Cloud Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific content solely.