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Forms of hosting services

A hosting service concerns stashing and/or sharing particular content on a web server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a gaze at these. In that way, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to create a blog, email address accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution made available by given web hosts, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally 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 load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between individual packs of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various site hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a huge amount of images with buddies or partners since the service is generally free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to tackling your e-mail address accounts. Some corporations offer webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email service. If you desire to manage an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up mail address 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 servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many video files as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At NETHOST23, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific content exclusively.