Categories of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to stashing and/or sharing given web content on a server run by a website hosting distributor. There are different groups of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a glimpse at these. Thus, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you desire to own a weblog, email accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting packages are frequently supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular span of time to see 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 instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between autonomous stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web page hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share an enormous amount of images with friends or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your email box accounts. Some suppliers offer webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email service. If you would like to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to run as many videos as you desire without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a web site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email accounts, upload videos, etc. At Fluint Web Host, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific content only.