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Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution implies hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are different groups of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a peek at them. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you wish to set up a website, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by particular vendors, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage accounts are frequently supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would share the workload between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web page hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share an immense amount of pics with buddies or colleagues since the solution is generally free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to managing your mail addresses. Some vendors provide web page hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you want to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At PCCD Hosting, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for particular content solely.