Types of hosting services

A hosting solution is connected with stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a web server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's study them. In that way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to launch a website, e-mail addresses, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allot the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different webspace hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you wish to share a big quantity of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your email mailbox accounts. Some firms offer site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open email mailbox accounts and manage 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 videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video files as you desire without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a web site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mails, upload video clips, and so on. At Syno-Host, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for specific web content solely.