Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means stashing and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a glance at them. In that way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you desire to build a site, mail addresses, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by given firms, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not offer website 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 explore a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely false explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web site hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some providers provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a great amount of images with pals or acquaintances since the service is mostly 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 hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your e-mails. Some vendors provide site hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you would like to open an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to keep a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the regular email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content only.