Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to depositing and/or sharing given content on a server managed by a web hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glance at these. Thus, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to own a web page, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by particular file storage providers, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support site 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 read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services frequently involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different webspace hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain companies provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a vast amount of pics with friends or colleagues since the service is generally free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to managing your mails. Some companies provide web page hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many video files as you would like without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a website. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email addresses, upload video files, etc. At Supreme Hosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific content solely.