Categories of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to storing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server managed by a hosting company. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's explore these. Thus, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you desire to build a web portal, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by certain companies, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer website 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 explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are often supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, 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 corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would share the load between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share a large number of pics with comrades or partners since the service is usually free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your e-mail addresses. Some corporations provide hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an email solution. If you want to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create email accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to own as many video files as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to run a site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At JamaServer, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for specific content solely.