Types of hosting services

A hosting service implies stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a web server administered by a hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different goals, so let's survey them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you wish to have a site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular providers, which permits you to share enormous 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 only objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly 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 not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are often supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would split the load between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a great quantity of pictures with friends or colleagues since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your mails. Some providers offer website hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you want to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At GaskinTech, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular content solely.