Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to storing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's examine them. In this way, you can decide what you want, based on whether you'd like to set up a web site, e-mail accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support web site 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 view a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely awry interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between autonomous bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is good if you would like to share a great quantity of pictures with comrades or associates since the service is commonly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your electronic mail accounts. Some distributors offer web space hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create email address accounts and manage 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 service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to operate as many videos as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to keep a site. To some degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mails, upload video files, and so on. At Eagle Eye Computers, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular content only.