Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution implies stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web server hosted by a hosting company. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a gaze at these. In that way, you can elect what you need, based on whether you desire to create a blog, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by some providers, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain 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 load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages frequently involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally false explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between independent sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different webspace hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share an immense quantity of pictures with friends or partners since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mails. Some suppliers offer web hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you desire to have an email address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to administer as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to run a website. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At SAbERsites, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific web content only.