Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution includes saving and/or sharing given content on a web server administered by a web hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's review them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to own a blog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various firms, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage solutions are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inapt explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the tasks at hand between different hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web page hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a vast amount of pics with comrades or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mail accounts. Some firms offer web page hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email 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 in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to manage as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to own a website. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting groups since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At Compuniversal, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - 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 juxtaposed to the usual email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular web content only.