Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves saving and/or sharing given web content on a server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different ends, so let's take a glance at them. Doing so, you can choose what you want, based on whether you wish to establish a web site, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution offered by some companies, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once 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 roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are frequently supported by exhibiting ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally inapt interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific firms provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share an immense number of pics with chums or acquaintances since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to administering your mail addresses. Some corporations offer web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you would like to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to possess as many videos as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to own a website. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Host MM, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for specific web content solely.