Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a glimpse at them. In this way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to launch a website, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular firms, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions frequently include adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific stretch of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly twisted explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the workload between different hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web page hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you wish to share an immense amount of images with buddies or colleagues since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your mails. Some distributors offer web page hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to manage as many videos as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a site. To some extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and email mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse compared with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for particular web content only.