Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns storing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server administered by a website hosting vendor. There are various groups of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a glance at them. Thus, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you desire to launch a web page, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a service made available by given file storage providers, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between separate groups of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain firms offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share a huge quantity of pics with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your email mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer web site hosting services for websites, but do not offer an email service. If you would like to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to operate as many video files as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to run a site. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mailbox accounts, upload videos, etc. At webdomainhosting, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular content only.