Classes of hosting services

A hosting service refers to stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a web server administered by a website hosting vendor. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a glance at these. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to set up a weblog, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by various firms, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently involve ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you await a given interval of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally distorted interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the tasks at hand between individual groups of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous webspace hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given vendors offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting type is good if you desire to share an immense number of pictures with chums or partners since the solution is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your email aliases. Some distributors provide web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you wish to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to utilize as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to keep a website. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and electronic mail accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Tonga Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for specific web content only.