Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution is related to storing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various sorts of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's survey them. Thus, you can decide what you want, based on whether you desire to have a blog, email addresses, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some hosts, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file hosting accounts often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely mistaken interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between individual packs of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various web space hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a huge quantity of images with chums or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your e-mail addresses. Some providers offer web hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email service. If you desire to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file generates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to have as many videos as you would like without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to keep a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse compared with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific web content only.