Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution includes keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web server run by a web hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glance at these. In that way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to launch a website, mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service offered by some web hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage solutions frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between individual packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various website hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a large quantity of pics with mates or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to handling your email aliases. Some firms provide site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you would like to possess an email address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open email accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many video clips as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to possess a site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload videos, and so on. At SAbERsites, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific content only.