Types of hosting services

A hosting service suggests saving and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's review them. Thus, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a website, mail addresses, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular web hosts, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between different bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various website hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some firms provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a great amount of images with chums or associates since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every image 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 sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your mails. Some corporations provide web space hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you want to own an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to own as many video files as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to have a web site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail aliases, upload videos, etc. At Levi Sap Nei Thang Network, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific web content only.