Classes of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to stashing and/or sharing particular content on a web server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glance at them. In that way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to have a web page, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as 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 see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages often include ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely imprecise interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the load between separate sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different website hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given companies provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share a big number of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the service is commonly free. You will get a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your email accounts. Some firms offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with several videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to operate as many videos as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to own a website. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular web content only.