Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to depositing and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's study them. In this way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you desire to have a website, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain web hosts, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage services often involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the load between separate sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share an immense amount of pictures with mates or partners since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your mail addresses. Some distributors offer webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you wish to manage an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to use as many video files as you want to without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a web site. To some extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At New Zealand Web Hosting Services, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific content solely.