Classes of hosting services

A hosting service includes keeping and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting vendor. There are various types of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's explore these. Doing so, you can choose what you need, based on whether you desire to create a site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain companies, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page 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 explore a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely untrue explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between separate sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific providers offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a large amount of images with pals or partners since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every pic 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 tackling your email aliases. Some corporations provide web site hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you would like to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to have as many video files as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to run a web site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload video clips, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical email/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular content exclusively.