Forms of hosting services

A hosting service entails stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a server run by a website hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a gaze at these. In that way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you wish to establish a website, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various web hosts, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created 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 be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts frequently include ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly amiss interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the load between autonomous bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share a huge quantity of images with mates or associates since the solution is usually free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email box accounts. Some corporations provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you want to get a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a website. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and emails, upload video files, etc. At AIDA Host, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for particular web content exclusively.