Categories of hosting services

A hosting service pertains to saving and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a glance at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you wish to own a blog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages frequently involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the load between different hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share an immense amount of images with friends or acquaintances since the solution is typically free. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your email box accounts. Some firms provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you want to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service 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 specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, etc. At iTechnologix Hosting, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific web content exclusively.