Classes of hosting services

A hosting service appertains to keeping and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting vendor. There are different varieties of hosting services used for different ends, so let's survey them. In that way, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to have a site, e-mails, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some file storage providers, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between separate bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given providers provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a big quantity of pics with mates or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will get a random link for each pic 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 tackling your mail accounts. Some companies offer site hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video generates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many videos as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to have a site. To some degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At eMajal, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared to the routine email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific web content only.