Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution means keeping and/or sharing given web content on a server administered by a hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a look at these. Thus, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a web portal, mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular companies, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a given spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely distorted interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a big amount of images with pals or acquaintances since the service is generally free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each 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 web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to administering your email addresses. Some corporations provide web site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you want to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to administer as many videos as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a web site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular web content solely.