Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with keeping and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting provider. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a look at these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to launch a weblog, e-mail accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by various file storage providers, which enables you to share big files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single 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 created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by showing ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allot the tasks at hand between independent packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is good if you want to share an immense number of pics with friends or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to handling your email aliases. Some firms provide site hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you wish to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up e-mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution 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 a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many videos as you wish without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a website. To a certain extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Linux Hosts Inc., for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse compared to the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular web content exclusively.