Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution suggests keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's examine these. In this way, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you desire to have a blog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various companies, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between autonomous hosts of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different website hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share an immense number of pictures with chums or associates since the service is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for every pic 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 used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to administering your e-mail accounts. Some companies provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you desire to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many video files as you want to without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to possess a site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At AIDA Host, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical email/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific content solely.