Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service pertains to hoarding and/or sharing particular web content on a web server run by a web hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a look at them. In that way, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you wish to own a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some providers, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are often supported by showing ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inappropriate explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the workload between individual bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different site hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a large amount of pics with pals or associates since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mail accounts. Some companies offer web hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you desire to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes 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 clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to use as many video clips as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a website. To some degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload videos, etc. At Elite Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific web content only.