Types of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with stockpiling and/or sharing given web content on a server administered by a website hosting provider. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to build a blog, email accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service provided by particular providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are frequently supported by displaying advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the tasks at hand between independent bunches of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given providers provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you desire to share an immense number of pictures with chums or colleagues since the solution is usually free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email mailbox accounts. Some companies offer web page hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you desire 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 require. You can set up e-mail box 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 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 file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email address accounts, upload video files, etc. At Smartway Hosting, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, 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 email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific content solely.