Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution entails stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are different classes of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a look at them. In that way, you can determine what you want, depending on whether you'd like to establish a site, email aliases, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by various file storage providers, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage services are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a specific amount of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between separate sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given providers offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share a big quantity of pics with buddies or colleagues since the service is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each 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 solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your e-mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer web page hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you want to possess an email address with your domain name but do not desire to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. 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 involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to keep a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mails, upload videos, and so on. At Blue Point Host, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for particular web content only.