Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service means stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting company. There are various types of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to set up a weblog, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by given firms, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions often involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the workload between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different webspace hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share an enormous number of pics with pals or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will get a random link for every pic 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 utilized for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to administer as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At Eagle Group Resources, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for specific content only.