Categories of hosting services

A hosting service applies to storing and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a glance at these. In that way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given firms, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal 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 see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally false interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the workload between different packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting variant is good if you want to share an immense quantity of pictures with pals or associates since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to managing your e-mails. Some vendors provide web site hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you desire to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to run as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to possess a site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At DuoServer.US, for example, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific web content solely.