Groups of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to stockpiling and/or sharing certain web content on a web server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a peek at them. In that way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you wish to create a web portal, email address accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular firms, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are often supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally false explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the workload between autonomous packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some companies offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous quantity of pics with chums or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your mail accounts. Some firms offer web space hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you want to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many video files as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific content exclusively.