Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service implies keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a look at them. In this way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a web page, emails, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created 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 see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are frequently supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the workload between different hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share an immense quantity of pics with buddies or partners since the service is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to managing your email addresses. Some suppliers provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to run an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to have a web site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Magnolia Sweets Web Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for particular content only.