Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service concerns hoarding and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's review these. In this way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a blog, e-mail addresses, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service furnished by some file storage providers, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, 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. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are often supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incongruous explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the load between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a huge number of images with mates or colleagues since the service is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some corporations provide hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you wish to own a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to possess as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a site. To some extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At LiquidNet, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for particular content only.