Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes saving and/or sharing given content on a server managed by a website hosting company. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a glimpse at them. In this way, you can choose what you need, depending on whether you wish to run a web site, mail accounts, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a service delivered by some companies, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, 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 support web page 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 survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular span of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely incorrect explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between individual groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share an enormous amount of pictures with friends or partners since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to managing your email address accounts. Some suppliers offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you wish to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your web hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to use as many videos as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a website. To some extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular content exclusively.