Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service concerns stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web server administered by a web hosting company. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a weblog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by given companies, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by showing ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally imprecise interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between autonomous groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is good if you would like to share a vast quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the service is typically free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic 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.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your mailbox accounts. Some corporations provide website hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to create a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail address accounts and administer 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 videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to have as many video files as you wish without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At ProMaxHosting, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared with the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific content solely.