Types of hosting services

A hosting solution involves saving and/or sharing given web content on a web server run by a web hosting company. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's examine them. In this way, you can elect what you want, depending on whether you wish to have a site, mail aliases, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various companies, which permits you to share immense 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 aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage plans frequently include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would share the workload between separate hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various site hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service 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; certain suppliers provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a big amount of pics with pals or associates since the solution is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some vendors provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you would like to own a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail 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 specific video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to possess as many videos as you desire without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to own a website. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mails, upload videos, and so on. At AIDA Host, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular web content exclusively.