Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to stashing and/or sharing given content on a web server hosted by a web hosting distributor. There are various kinds of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a peek at these. Doing so, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to set up a web site, email accounts, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain hosts, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web 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 list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage solutions are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the workload between individual stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a vast amount of pictures with mates or partners since the service is usually free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mails. Some corporations offer web site hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you would like to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to run as many videos as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to own a website. To a certain degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At CloudNEO, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for specific web content only.