Forms of hosting services

A hosting service means depositing and/or sharing certain content on a web server run by a website hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services used for various aims, so let's review these. Doing so, you can determine what you need, based on whether you desire to run a weblog, mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various firms, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage packages are often supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, 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 suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between different sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share an immense quantity of pics with buddies or partners since the service is generally free. You will get a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to administering your mail accounts. Some companies provide website hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to own an email address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to keep a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload videos, etc. At CMS HelpDesk, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared to the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for specific web content exclusively.