Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails stockpiling and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a web hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a look at these. Doing so, you can decide what you want, based on whether you desire to launch a website, mail aliases, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain web hosts, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting plans are often supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular span of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely amiss interpretation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would assign the workload between autonomous packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different site hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a big number of pics with friends or associates since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many video clips as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload videos, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content exclusively.