Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution implies depositing and/or sharing specific content on a web server run by a web hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services used for various goals, so let's examine them. In this way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you wish to build a weblog, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain firms, which allows you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment 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 list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between different hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting service for images only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share an immense number of pictures with friends or colleagues since the service is usually 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 service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to managing your mail address accounts. Some vendors provide webspace hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to keep as many video files as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to have a site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At REVOTECH hosting, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular content solely.