Forms of hosting services

A hosting service suggests stashing and/or sharing specific content on a server handled by a website hosting distributor. There are different classes of hosting services used for various aims, so let's take a glimpse at them. In that way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a blog, email box accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular vendors, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site 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 see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely inapt interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the load between separate stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a big quantity of images with friends or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mail addresses. Some distributors provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an email solution. If you wish to run an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open email box 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to possess as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to have a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email accounts, upload videos, etc. At GLOBALIOS TECHNOLOGIJOS UAB, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular content exclusively.