Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to saving and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a glimpse at these. Thus, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a web site, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by certain providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage services often include ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific span of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally amiss explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between independent sets of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web site hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is good if you want to share a vast quantity of pics with chums or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your email address accounts. Some distributors provide site hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you wish to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with several video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to run as many video files as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to have a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've picked - 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 in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for particular web content only.