Forms of hosting services

A hosting service refers to storing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting vendor. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's study them. In that way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a blog, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by particular firms, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support site 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 explore a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage solutions are often supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular stretch of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between different stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you want to share an immense amount of images with friends or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mail accounts. Some suppliers offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to set up an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to administer as many videos as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to have a website. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and email addresses, upload videos, and so on. At JuLanna Hosting, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular web content exclusively.