Groups of hosting services

A hosting service concerns depositing and/or sharing particular content on a hosting server run by a hosting vendor. There are various forms of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a glimpse at them. In that way, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to set up a web page, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution offered by some hosts, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages frequently include adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally imprecise interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between autonomous sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous amount of pictures with chums or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mail address accounts. Some corporations offer hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to set up an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to operate as many video clips as you want to without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and emails, upload video files, and so on. At Lonex, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific web content solely.