Groups of hosting services

A hosting service involves keeping and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server handled by a hosting supplier. There are different forms of hosting services used for various aims, so let's review them. In this way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you'd like to run a website, mail aliases, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally false interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some companies offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share a big amount of images with mates or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your email accounts. Some vendors provide site hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open email box 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 e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to utilize as many videos as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to possess a web site. To some degree, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At Dsquad Hosting, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific content only.