Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution is connected with hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a server administered by a website hosting company. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's have a glimpse at these. In this way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a website, email aliases, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain vendors, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage plans frequently involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy 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 in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would share the load between individual groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply 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 vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share an enormous quantity of pictures with pals or associates since the solution is commonly free. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your mail aliases. Some firms offer web page hosting solutions for web pages, but do not provide an email solution. If you wish to set up an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to administer as many videos as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a site. To some degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Gea Hosting, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the regular email/file/video/image hosting plans that are purposed for particular web content exclusively.