Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution involves stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you wish to create a web site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various file storage providers, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly twisted explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between autonomous hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different site hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share an enormous quantity of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the service is usually free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your email address accounts. Some firms offer website hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to have an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to have a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and emails, upload video clips, and so on. At CDI Create, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific web content solely.