Categories of hosting services

A hosting service applies to stashing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's survey them. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to have a web page, email addresses, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular web hosts, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular amount of time to perceive them. A given 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 immediately, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between different bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various website hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a vast amount of pictures with buddies or associates since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to managing your mails. Some distributors provide site hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you want to manage an email address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a 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 website hosting supplies. Embedding the video will permit you to keep as many video files as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to possess a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email aliases, upload video clips, etc. At SecureBox Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for particular web content exclusively.