Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution means saving and/or sharing given web content on a server handled by a web hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a glimpse at them. In that way, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you'd like to have a website, e-mail addresses, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by given companies, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions frequently involve ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would assign the tasks at hand between separate hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given firms offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a big amount of pictures with buddies or partners since the solution is usually free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to keep as many video clips as you want to without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to possess a site. To some extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At duohost.net, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific web content exclusively.