Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to keeping and/or sharing given content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a glimpse at them. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a blog, mails, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive 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 be unable to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting accounts are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the tasks at hand between individual groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web page hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an enormous quantity of pics with chums or colleagues since the solution is typically free. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your mail addresses. Some distributors offer webspace hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to open an email address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email 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 particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to operate as many videos as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a website. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At DuoServers Web Hosting, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific content only.