Types of hosting services

A hosting solution involves hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a gaze at them. In that way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to launch a web page, mails, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by particular web hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list 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 ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the tasks at hand between different stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a large amount of images with buddies or partners since the solution is generally free. You will receive a random link for every image 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 used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to handling your e-mailbox accounts. Some vendors provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email solution. If you desire to create an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service 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 some 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 clip produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a website. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Lonex, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for specific web content exclusively.