Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution means keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's review these. In that way, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to own a web site, email accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by some companies, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated 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 load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different website hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is good if you would like to share a large quantity of images with buddies or partners since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your emails. Some vendors provide web page hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you wish to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up mail address 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to operate as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At White River Domains, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular web content only.