Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution includes depositing and/or sharing certain content on a web server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a look at them. Doing so, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you wish to own a web page, mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by particular hosts, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support 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 view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting services are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific span of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally false interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between independent sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some companies provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a large number of images with chums or acquaintances since the solution is generally free. You will obtain a random link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mail aliases. Some suppliers offer web space hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many videos as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a web site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mails, upload video files, etc. At The Wizard Hosting, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific web content solely.