Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means storing and/or sharing specific web content on a server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services used for various goals, so let's study them. In this way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to launch a web site, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by some file storage providers, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once 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 table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages often include advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly amiss interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between autonomous packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some providers offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share a huge amount of pics with mates or partners since the solution is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to tackling your e-mail accounts. Some providers offer web page hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you desire to run a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to use as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to keep a web site. To some degree, it embodies all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the regular email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific web content solely.