Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to storing and/or sharing certain content on a server run by a web hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service offered by various file storage providers, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts are often supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely wrong interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between individual hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share an enormous number of pictures with mates or associates since the solution is typically free. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail address accounts. Some suppliers offer web space hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you desire to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to possess as many video files as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a web site. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email address accounts, upload videos, etc. At zoyahost, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular content only.