Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service entails storing and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting vendor. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different aims, so let's review these. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you wish to launch a website, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by certain file storage providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey 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 hosting accounts are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally inapt explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the workload between independent packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given firms provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share a large quantity of images with pals or associates since the solution is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your mail accounts. Some distributors provide site hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to manage an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many videos as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to have a website. To a certain degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Praga Web Hosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific content only.