Types of hosting services

A hosting solution is connected with keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web server administered by a web hosting supplier. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's take a look at them. In this way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by given companies, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are frequently supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get 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 limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inapt interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between separate bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share an enormous amount of images with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your e-mail aliases. Some firms provide web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many video files as you would like without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a web site. To some degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At OBriNet SBSolutions, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content solely.