Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a server handled by a website hosting distributor. There are various varieties of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at these. In that way, you can pick what you want, based on whether you'd like to run a web page, email accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some providers, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally 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 open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans often include ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally amiss interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous sets of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a big quantity of pictures with chums or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your site 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 clip produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many video files as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and email accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Flashpoint Media Hosting, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific content solely.