Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution concerns keeping and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are various types of hosting services used for various ends, so let's survey these. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to launch a web portal, mail aliases, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service furnished by various firms, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given span of time to see them. A given 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 straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the load between autonomous sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web space hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a large amount of pics with chums or colleagues since the solution is typically free of charge. You will obtain a random 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 supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to handling your e-mail accounts. Some companies provide site hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you wish to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to administer as many video files as you want without bothering about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to keep a site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At 9 Cube Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content exclusively.