Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service entails depositing and/or sharing given content on a server handled by a hosting provider. There are different forms of hosting services used for different goals, so let's survey them. Doing so, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you wish to establish a web portal, email addresses, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by particular providers, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting packages are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally false explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the workload between autonomous sets of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a big quantity of pics with pals or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to managing your email mailbox accounts. Some suppliers provide web site hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you desire to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to operate as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a web site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, etc. At Duo Servers, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for specific web content only.