Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a gaze at these. Thus, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you desire to have a site, mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by various firms, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts often involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the tasks at hand between separate sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web site hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain distributors offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a great number of pics with buddies or partners since the solution is generally free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your mail aliases. Some companies provide web site hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you desire to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to possess as many videos as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to possess a website. To some extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At New Wave Technologies Limited, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular content exclusively.