Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a web server administered by a web hosting company. There are various forms of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a glance at them. Doing so, you can pick what you need, based on whether you'd like to run a site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service provided by given providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly improper interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web space hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a large quantity of pictures with chums or partners since the service is usually free of charge. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your email accounts. Some vendors provide webspace hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you would like to create a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open e-mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to possess as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to run a web site. To some degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload videos, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting account may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific web content solely.