Types of hosting services

A hosting service is connected with stockpiling and/or sharing given content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's have a peek at them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a website, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some file storage providers, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support 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 view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incorrect explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various website hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share a vast amount of images with comrades or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to managing your mails. Some corporations provide web space hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an email service. If you want to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to possess as many video files as you desire without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to own a site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and mails, upload video clips, etc. At AIDA Host, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific web content only.