Classes of hosting services

A hosting service includes keeping and/or sharing specific content on a server run by a web hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's examine these. Thus, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to own a website, email box accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by various vendors, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting accounts often include ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally mistaken interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the tasks at hand between autonomous sets of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web space hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some firms provide a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a huge quantity of images with buddies or associates since the service is typically free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and 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 service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your emails. Some companies offer web hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to run a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you would like without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to own a website. To some extent, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At Hosting.com.ru, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific web content exclusively.