Categories of hosting services

A hosting service concerns stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting distributor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a look at them. Thus, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to build a web site, e-mail accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various firms, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created 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 load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage packages frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between autonomous sets of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a large number of images with chums or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your e-mail address accounts. Some distributors offer hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create email accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to operate as many video files as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to run a site. To some extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Maraya Media, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for particular web content exclusively.