Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a web server handled by a website hosting company. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to build a website, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by particular providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific spell of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely untrue explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the tasks at hand between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving different web site hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting type is suitable if you would like to share a vast number of images with chums or colleagues since the service is generally free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image 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 websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mail address accounts. Some distributors offer web site hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email service. If you want to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email 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 file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to administer as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload video clips, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content only.