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Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to saving and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's explore them. Thus, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a weblog, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service made available by given hosts, which lets you share large 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 sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage plans are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inapt interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between individual hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share an immense amount of pictures with mates or associates since the service is usually free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each 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 service cannot be utilized for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to operate as many video files as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a site. To some degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload video clips, and so on. At sunma, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the sort 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 web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular content only.