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Groups of hosting services

A hosting solution appertains to keeping and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a glimpse at them. In that way, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you desire to build a site, email accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution offered by some firms, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage solutions often involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the load between separate stacks of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various webspace hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you wish to share an immense amount of images with mates or colleagues since the service is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to tackling your mailbox accounts. Some distributors offer website hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you would like to create a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many videos as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At REN Hosting, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular content exclusively.