Groups of hosting services

A hosting service is related to stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server hosted by a hosting distributor. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a glance at them. Thus, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to set up a weblog, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various firms, which enables you to share huge 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 single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally fallacious explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between different sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a large quantity of images with pals or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your email addresses. Some distributors offer hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables 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 site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to run a website. To some degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Thexyz Inc, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular content solely.