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Web Hosting Services Definition

A web hosting solution applies to keeping and/or sharing particular content on a server handled by a web hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a glance at these. Thus, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you'd like to have a website, email addresses, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by given providers, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated 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 be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting packages frequently involve ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular interval of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud web hosting". This is a totally distorted explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud web hosting system would allot the tasks at hand between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain distributors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a large number of pictures with mates or associates since the solution is typically free. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your emails. Some firms provide web hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to open an email address with your domain but do not wish to possess a web site, then the email web hosting solution is what you need. You can open e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain name. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to have as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to own a website. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At YasHost you can take a glimpse at shared web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of web hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared web hosting account, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular content only.