Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to keeping and/or sharing given web content on a server hosted by a website hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's explore these. In that way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you'd like to establish a site, mail aliases, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by particular web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created 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 be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the workload between different groups of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various website hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a big amount of pics with pals or colleagues since the service is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail box accounts. Some companies provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to operate as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to have a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mail address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At GTO Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific content solely.