Types of hosting services

A hosting service pertains to storing and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a peek at them. In this way, you can decide what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by some web hosts, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages are often supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted 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 in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between independent bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share an immense quantity of images with pals or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for each image 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 utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail address accounts. Some vendors offer web page hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you desire to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to utilize as many video files as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to keep a website. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mails, upload video clips, etc. At L.A. Web Mart, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for specific content only.