Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web server hosted by a website hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for different aims, so let's examine these. In this way, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to have a web page, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by given file storage providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer 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 examine a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting plans are frequently supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely amiss interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would apportion the load between autonomous stacks of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only 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 distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a huge amount of pics with friends or colleagues since the solution is generally free. You will get a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to administering your mail address accounts. Some distributors offer web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email service. If you would like to open a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many video files as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to own a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular web content exclusively.