Kinds of hosting services

A hosting service entails saving and/or sharing particular content on a server handled by a web hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different aims, so let's survey these. In this way, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you'd like to set up a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by some firms, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages frequently include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific period of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between separate packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting 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; specific providers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a great amount of images with chums or associates since the service is generally free. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your email address accounts. Some vendors provide website hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you would like to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many video files as you wish without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to own a web site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At EASYTECH AFRICA, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular web content only.