Varieties of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with stashing and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting company. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a gaze at these. In this way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you'd like to own a web site, email aliases, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some firms, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage solutions are often supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly amiss explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the tasks at hand between individual sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a vast quantity of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a random 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 supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some firms offer web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you wish to create a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to use as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a website. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At WNS Hosting, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific web content solely.