Groups of hosting services

A hosting service applies to stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting company. There are different categories of hosting services used for different ends, so let's review these. In that way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you desire to establish a web page, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by particular firms, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting services frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally improper explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between individual bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a vast quantity of images with pals or associates since the service is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your email addresses. Some companies offer web site hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email service. If you desire to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. 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 involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to run as many video files as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At SAHAKA Hosting, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular content only.