Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting provider. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a blog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a service furnished by given firms, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage accounts often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly twisted explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would split the load between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you would like to share a large amount of pics with pals or partners since the service is generally free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many videos as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to keep a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Castle Host, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for specific content only.