Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution implies hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server run by a website hosting provider. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's explore them. In that way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to set up a site, mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution offered by certain companies, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts frequently include adverts next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between independent packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a huge number of images with buddies or acquaintances since the service is commonly free. You will get a randomly generated link for every 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 web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your mail addresses. Some companies provide hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your 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 generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many video files as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to run a site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email addresses, upload video files, and so on. At T R I N I T Y, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limits based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the typical email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular web content only.