Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's have a gaze at them. Thus, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to run a web site, mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a service made available by particular hosts, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly 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 view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage accounts are frequently supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly erroneous explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between separate packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various website hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a huge quantity of images with pals or associates since the solution is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to tackling your email box accounts. Some firms provide web space hosting services for websites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create email accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video files as you would like without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to have a site. To some degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single location. There may be limits depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content solely.