Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with storing and/or sharing specific content on a server run by a hosting supplier. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's study these. In that way, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you'd like to build a website, emails, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular web hosts, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans frequently involve adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between independent groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various website hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share an immense amount of pictures with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your e-mails. Some vendors offer web page hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to run a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email address accounts, upload videos, etc. At Garis Hosting, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific content exclusively.