Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution implies keeping and/or sharing certain content on a web server run by a web hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services used for various ends, so let's explore them. In this way, you can choose what you need, based on whether you desire to establish a web site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain web hosts, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally untrue explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would share the tasks at hand between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given providers provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a large amount of pictures with mates or colleagues since the service is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your mail addresses. Some suppliers offer web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to open an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many videos as you want without hassling about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to run a website. To some extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and mails, upload video clips, and so on. At InstaNorth Marketing, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular web content only.