Groups of hosting services

A hosting service implies saving and/or sharing given web content on a server managed by a web hosting provider. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's explore them. Doing so, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you wish to run a web portal, email addresses, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by given firms, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are often supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between different packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web page hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a vast quantity of pics with mates or associates since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every 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 web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your mails. Some firms offer web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to run as many videos as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At Sankia Tech, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific web content exclusively.