Web Hosting Services Unmasked

A web hosting service means depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different ends, so let's explore these. In this way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a web page, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given vendors, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud web hosting". This is a totally inappropriate explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud web hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web hosting services (mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some providers offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a great amount of images with comrades or acquaintances 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 solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to tackling your e-mails. Some suppliers offer web hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you would like to launch an email address with your domain but do not desire to own a web site, then the e-mail web hosting solution is what you need. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domain. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video clips as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a website. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Blue Domain Hosting you can examine shared web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the type of web hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared website hosting plan, a VPS web hosting or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content only.