Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service means saving and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server run by a web hosting distributor. There are various types of hosting services used for different aims, so let's review them. In this way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to run a blog, email aliases, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by particular web hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage accounts are often supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely imprecise explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the tasks at hand between independent hosts of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a big amount of pics with mates or partners since the service is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to managing your mails. Some providers offer web site hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to launch 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 create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page 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 particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many video files as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to have a web site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mails, upload video files, and so on. At Heartland Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific content exclusively.