Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to depositing and/or sharing particular content on a web server handled by a web hosting vendor. There are various kinds of hosting services used for various goals, so let's study them. Doing so, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you'd like to run a website, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by given companies, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are frequently supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain spell of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would split the tasks at hand between independent packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a vast number of pictures with comrades or associates since the service is usually free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email addresses. Some corporations offer hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you desire to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to manage as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to possess a website. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Free Hostia, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific content only.