Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service is connected with stashing and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services used for different ends, so let's study them. In that way, you can choose what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a web site, email addresses, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various providers, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between autonomous packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different webspace hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a huge quantity of pictures with comrades or partners since the solution is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated 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 service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to handling your e-mail box accounts. Some providers provide webspace hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to run as many videos as you desire without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a site. To some extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and email aliases, upload videos, and so on. At JoshWho Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the typical email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific content only.