Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution implies keeping and/or sharing certain content on a server run by a website hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a peek at them. In that way, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to run a weblog, email address accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions frequently involve advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely amiss interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between individual groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various website hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share an enormous quantity of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the service is generally free. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to handling your email addresses. Some vendors provide web hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you wish to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to possess as many videos as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload video files, etc. At Micurramba, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific web content only.