How Do Web Hosting Services Work?

A web hosting service means keeping and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a gaze at these. In this way, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you desire to run a weblog, e-mail addresses, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some companies, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file hosting services are often supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud web hosting". This is an entirely untrue explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud web hosting environment would divide the load between individual groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given distributors offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a huge quantity of pics with friends or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free of cost. 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 used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your e-mail address accounts. Some companies offer web hosting services for sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you would like to launch an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a site, then the e-mail web hosting service is what you want. You can create mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domain name. The email hosting solution involves 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 specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to have as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to have a website. To some extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and emails, upload videos, etc. At Social Stream ME you can see shared web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the sort of web hosting service that you've chosen - a free web hosting account, a paid shared website hosting plan, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular web content only.