Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to storing and/or sharing specific content on a server administered by a web hosting provider. There are different kinds of hosting services used for various aims, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you wish to create a weblog, e-mail aliases, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service delivered by certain web hosts, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, 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 site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts often involve ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely distorted explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between separate packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you want to share a large amount of pictures with chums or colleagues since the service is mostly free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your e-mail accounts. Some suppliers offer web page hosting services for web pages, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to own a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to administer as many video files as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail box accounts, upload videos, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for particular web content exclusively.