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Classes of hosting services

A hosting service means stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web server managed by a website hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a look at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you desire to build a website, email accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service supplied by given firms, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages often include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the load between separate bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a large quantity of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the service is usually free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated 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 service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your email aliases. Some suppliers provide website hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to get an email address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with several videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many video files as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to possess a site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email box accounts, upload videos, etc. At Sozac.com, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific content solely.