Categories of hosting services

A hosting service involves storing and/or sharing given content on a web server run by a web hosting vendor. There are different forms of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's survey them. In that way, you can pick what you want, based on whether you'd like to run a site, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular companies, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, 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 site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services frequently involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous webspace hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some companies offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share an immense amount of pics with pals or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of cost. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your electronic mail accounts. Some vendors provide web site hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to use as many video files as you wish without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a website. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and emails, upload video clips, and so on. At aBitHosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific content solely.