Sorts of hosting services

A hosting service concerns stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different aims, so let's explore these. In this way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a website, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by certain file storage providers, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions frequently involve ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular amount of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase 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 with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the workload between autonomous hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you want to share a large number of images with chums or partners since the service is generally free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your email aliases. Some companies provide web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to possess a website. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload video files, and so on. At OP Concept, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific content exclusively.