Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a server administered by a website hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a gaze at them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you desire to establish a blog, mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution provided by given web hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. The moment 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 roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the load between independent bunches of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some distributors provide a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share an immense number of images with chums or colleagues since the service is generally free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email addresses. Some distributors provide web site hosting services for websites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you want to create an email address with your domain name but do not want to possess a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred site visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to use as many videos as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to own a website. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in a single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for specific web content solely.