Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution is associated with storing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting vendor. There are various types of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's review these. Thus, you can pick what you want, based on whether you wish to own a web site, e-mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain firms, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a list 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 storage solutions are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would split the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various webspace hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a large amount of pics with buddies or acquaintances since the service is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your mail address accounts. Some suppliers provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to have a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video clips as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to keep a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and electronic mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At Easy Host Way, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular content only.