Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service is connected with stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server hosted by a hosting company. There are different varieties of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's take a glance at them. Thus, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you'd like to own a blog, mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by certain web hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts often include ads by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a particular stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own 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 limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly wrong interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between different hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web space hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific corporations provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share an enormous number of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic 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 sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to handling your electronic mail accounts. Some distributors provide web page hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to possess as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to keep a website. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At WWW Solutions, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse compared with the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific content solely.