Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns depositing and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting vendor. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's explore these. Doing so, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you wish to set up a website, e-mail addresses, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular hosts, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster 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-charge file hosting packages are often supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular interval of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely awry explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would share the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, web space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is good if you wish to share a huge quantity of pics with buddies or associates since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to administering your e-mails. Some companies offer web space hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you would like to get a mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service 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 videos. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to manage as many video files as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mails, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific content only.