Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution refers to storing and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting distributor. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to own a web page, emails, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular vendors, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory 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-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between different sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share a large amount of pics with comrades or partners since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your e-mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you would like to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to own a web site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Genesis 1 Management, for example, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for specific content only.