Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution involves hoarding and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's survey them. In this way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to run a blog, emails, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various hosts, which enables you to share big 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 single objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the load between individual groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a large quantity of pictures with comrades or associates since the solution is generally free of cost. You will obtain 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 supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to manage as many video files as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a web site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload video files, etc. At LiquidNet Ltd Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for specific web content exclusively.