Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution entails storing and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting distributor. There are different types of hosting services used for different ends, so let's review these. In that way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you'd like to set up a web page, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage plans frequently involve ads next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits 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.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the tasks at hand between individual sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (email, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you want to share an immense quantity of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the solution is generally free. You will receive a randomly generated link for 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 utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your mail accounts. Some companies provide web page hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you desire to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of CPU load, so with several videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to use as many video files as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to run a website. To some extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Cunningham Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for particular web content only.