Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to keeping and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting provider. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different ends, so let's review them. Thus, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a web page, email accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular vendors, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 read a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are often supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain spell of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limits 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.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between independent groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web space hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given firms offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you desire to share a large amount of images with buddies or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of cost. You will obtain a random link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your mail addresses. Some companies provide hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits 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 website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many video files as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At RMvalues, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for particular content solely.