Groups of hosting services

A hosting service concerns stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are different classes of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a gaze at them. In this way, you can pick what you want, based on whether you'd like to set up a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by some vendors, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely incorrect interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different site hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you wish to share an enormous quantity of pictures with pals or colleagues since the service is usually free. You will receive a random 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 compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your email address accounts. Some providers provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you desire to run an email address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to own as many video files as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a site. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email box accounts, upload videos, etc. At Smartest Media, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are purposed for specific content only.