Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution includes stockpiling and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's review them. In that way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a web portal, email addresses, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by some companies, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages often involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given interval 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 restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between different packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is good if you want to share a huge amount of pictures with chums or partners since the service is typically free of cost. You will receive 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 supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mails. Some providers offer web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to get an email address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open email accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many video files as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to have a web site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At MarbleHost.com, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limits 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 webspace hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for particular web content solely.