How Do Web Hosting Services Work?

How Do Web Hosting Services Work?

$3.92 /mo

EconomyPlus Plan

  • Unlimited Data Storage
  • Unlimited Data Transfer
  • 5 Domains Hosted
  • 30-Day Free Trial

A web hosting service applies to stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a server administered by a web hosting company. There are different types of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's review these. In this way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to build a blog, mails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a service supplied by particular vendors, which permits you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective 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 read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file storage services often involve ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel web hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud web hosting". This is an entirely wrong explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud web hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between separate groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud web hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a big quantity of pics with chums or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your e-mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer web hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you would like to set up an e-mail address with your domain but do not desire to keep a site, then the email web hosting service is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain name. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many videos as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to own a site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail addresses, upload video files, and so on. At JCA Hosting you can have a glimpse at shared web hosting and dedicated hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the form of web hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared website hosting package, a VPS hosting or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for specific web content only.

EconomyPlus Business Executive Economy
Unlimited storage Unlimited storage Unlimited storage Unlimited storage
Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited bandwidth Unlimited bandwidth
5 websites hosted Unlimited websites hosted Unlimited websites hosted 1 website hosted
30-Day Free Trial 30-Day Free Trial 30-Day Free Trial 30-Day Free Trial
$3.92 / month $8.67 / month $12.50 / month $3.00 / month