Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution involves storing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a gaze at these. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to own a web portal, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some web hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site 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 view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages often involve ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between autonomous stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different webspace hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you desire to share a huge amount of images with comrades or partners since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture 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 web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your electronic mail accounts. Some companies offer web page hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a website. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email accounts, upload video clips, etc. At caseydavishosting.com, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific content only.