Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service is connected with depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a web server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's review them. Doing so, you can choose what you want, based on whether you wish to set up a site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by some vendors, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support web site 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 explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services often involve ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly awry explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between different sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various site hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given providers offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a big quantity of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your mail accounts. Some suppliers offer web site hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you desire to own a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to utilize as many videos as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a web site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail aliases, upload video files, etc. At Loyalty Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared to the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific web content exclusively.