Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution involves stashing and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server run by a website hosting company. There are various types of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a glance at these. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a website, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some firms, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inaccurate explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share a big amount of pics with chums or acquaintances since the service is typically free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each 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 solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail addresses. Some corporations provide hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you would like to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to administer as many videos as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to have a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and e-mails, upload video clips, etc. At HJ Management, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular content solely.