Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service means saving and/or sharing certain content on a server handled by a web hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a glance at them. In that way, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to build a web page, e-mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain file storage providers, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans frequently involve adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given amount of time to perceive them. A single 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 immediately, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally untrue explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the workload between different hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share an immense quantity of images with chums or acquaintances since the service is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mail box accounts. Some corporations offer webspace hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you want to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open email address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many videos as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to own a site. To some degree, it contains all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mails, upload video files, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending 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. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are tailored for particular content only.