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A hosting service appertains to depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server managed by a hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various aims, so let's survey them. In that way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a web site, email accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service offered by some providers, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services often include ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess 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.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a completely inappropriate explanation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various website hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some providers provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you wish to share an immense quantity of images with friends or acquaintances since the service is usually free of cost. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your mails. Some suppliers provide web hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you would like to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email 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 clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many videos as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to possess a website. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At webgeardefault, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for particular content only.