Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution implies depositing and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a website, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given companies, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created 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 not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limitations 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.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly awry explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different website hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a big quantity of pictures with friends or colleagues since the solution is typically free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each picture 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 used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your e-mail addresses. Some distributors provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you desire to get a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to operate as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to keep a website. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At EASYTECH AFRICA, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for specific web content only.