Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies keeping and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you wish to establish a website, email box accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given vendors, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services often include adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a particular spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely twisted interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the tasks at hand between separate stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific suppliers provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share a great number of pictures with mates or colleagues since the solution is usually free. You will receive a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer web hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you wish to own a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many videos as you wish without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to have a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and email mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the routine e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific content only.