Types of hosting services

A hosting service refers to hoarding and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various ends, so let's review these. Doing so, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to own a web page, email addresses, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain companies, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose 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 survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly erroneous interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between autonomous sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is good if you desire to share an enormous number of pics with mates or associates since the service is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your mail accounts. Some companies offer webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you desire to open an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video in your web page 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 generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many videos as you desire without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to run a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and emails, upload video files, and so on. At Conspire Web Services, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific web content exclusively.