Sorts of hosting services

A hosting solution implies stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to have a website, mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various companies, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between separate packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web site hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting kind is suitable if you wish to share a huge amount of pictures with buddies or partners since the solution is usually free. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your email box accounts. Some providers offer webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to have as many video files as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to have a site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Lim Hosting, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for specific web content only.