Forms of hosting services
A hosting service appertains to stashing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server hosted by a hosting supplier. There are various groups of hosting services used for various ends, so let's study them. Doing so, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to create a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.
- File hosting: a service distributed by certain companies, which lets you share big 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 only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess 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.
Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a completely amiss interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between separate stacks of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some vendors provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous amount of pictures with friends or partners since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture 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.
- Email hosting: a service devoted to handling your e-mail accounts. Some firms provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to get an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.
- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system quotas.
- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to run a web site. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload videos, and so on. At AIDA Host, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that allow you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for particular content solely.