Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to hoarding and/or sharing certain content on a server hosted by a website hosting distributor. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a glimpse at these. Thus, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you desire to run a site, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service offered by particular web hosts, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are frequently supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inaccurate explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between different stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given firms offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share an immense quantity of pictures with mates or colleagues since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and 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 solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your emails. Some suppliers offer hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to own a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to own as many video files as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to have a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email aliases, upload video clips, etc. At SOFTCRAFT NET, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific content exclusively.