Types of hosting services

A hosting solution implies keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are different varieties of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a weblog, e-mails, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some vendors, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support 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 explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are frequently supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular spell of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would apportion the workload between separate packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various site hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a large amount of pics with comrades or associates since the solution is usually free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to administering your e-mail box accounts. Some firms provide hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to use as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to run a website. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, and so on. At 9 Cube Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, 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 meant for specific web content only.