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Forms of hosting services

A hosting solution applies to stashing and/or sharing particular content on a server hosted by a hosting distributor. There are various varieties of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a gaze at them. Doing so, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to own a web portal, mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service furnished by particular firms, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages frequently include adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular stretch of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would assign the workload between different groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share an enormous number of images with pals or colleagues since the service is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your emails. Some vendors provide website hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you wish to set up an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to have as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a site. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Eagle Eye Computers, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content only.