Kinds of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting distributor. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a glance at these. Thus, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you'd like to have a blog, emails, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution provided by given vendors, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly 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 website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services frequently include adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly mistaken explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would distribute the workload between different hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous webspace hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share an enormous number of pics with mates or partners since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some companies provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you wish to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can create e-mail address 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 e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to administer as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to run a site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At TUWEBHOST, for instance, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular content solely.