Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests depositing and/or sharing specific content on a server run by a website hosting company. There are different classes of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a glance at them. In that way, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a site, mail accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by given vendors, which enables you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created 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 be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a specific spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between independent hosts of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web page hosting services (email, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a big quantity of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your e-mail box accounts. Some vendors provide webspace hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email service. If you desire to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to have as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to keep a site. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular web content exclusively.