Classes of hosting services

A hosting solution pertains to saving and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a look at them. Thus, you can pick what you want, based on whether you wish to launch a web portal, email aliases, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by some firms, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting solutions often include adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely erroneous interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between different bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web space hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some providers provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a huge amount of images with pals or acquaintances since the service is commonly free. You will get a random link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your email box accounts. Some providers offer web hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to use as many video files as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to run a site. To some degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At UNLI CLOUD, for instance, you can observe web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content only.