Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to saving and/or sharing particular content on a web server managed by a hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a look at them. Doing so, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you wish to establish a web page, mail address accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some web hosts, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the load between different stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web site hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you want to share a large amount of pictures with mates or acquaintances since the solution is generally free. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some distributors provide website hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you wish to manage an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to have as many videos as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a web site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mails, upload videos, and so on. At Kraft Traders, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific content exclusively.