Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes storing and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a look at these. Doing so, you can elect what you want, based on whether you desire to own a web portal, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular file storage providers, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting solutions frequently include advertisements beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage package, there are no limitations 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.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the load between independent hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different website hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind 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 pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share an immense amount of pictures with pals or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video file will enable you to have as many video files as you would like without bothering about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a website. To some extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mails, upload video files, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting plans that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limits based on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific content exclusively.