Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution includes storing and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server administered by a web hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a gaze at these. Thus, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to establish a web portal, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by various hosts, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once 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 table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different webspace hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous quantity of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will obtain 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 compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your email box accounts. Some distributors provide webspace hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to use as many videos as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a website. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Easy Street Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular content exclusively.