Classes of hosting services

A hosting service concerns storing and/or sharing certain content on a server hosted by a hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can decide what you want, based on whether you wish to establish a website, mail address accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some web hosts, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the workload between different packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a vast amount of pictures with buddies or colleagues since the service is typically free. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email address accounts. Some distributors offer web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to possess an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to run as many video files as you would like without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to possess a site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At VB Tech Hosting, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific web content only.