Categories of hosting services

A hosting service implies stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting vendor. There are different types of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a peek at them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to set up a website, mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by some companies, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support website 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 see a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inapt interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the workload between different sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share an enormous amount of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the service is commonly free. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to own as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to have a web site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mails, upload video files, and so on. At 2MP Group, LLC, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular content solely.