Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution is connected with depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server hosted by a hosting supplier. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a gaze at them. In this way, you can decide what you want, based on whether you desire to run a web portal, mail addresses, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain vendors, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain amount of time to observe them. A single 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 at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between independent sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different site hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a great quantity of images with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free. You will get a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your mail accounts. Some suppliers offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to run an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits 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 elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with several videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to operate as many videos as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a web site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Grand Lex Design, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular content solely.