Varieties of Hosting Solutions

A hosting solution means stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting provider. There are different types of web hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can pick what you need, based on whether you desire to build a web page, e-mails, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by certain file storage providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created 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 be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage plans frequently involve adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel web hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely amiss explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud hosting environment would divide the workload between different stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given vendors offer a hosting service for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you want to share a huge amount of pics with comrades or colleagues since the solution is generally free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then 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 service dedicated to tackling your email accounts. Some suppliers provide website hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you want to possess a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domain name. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many videos as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to own a website. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and e-mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At '100 Webspace', for instance, you can take a glance at shared webspace hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of website hosting service that you've chosen - a free web hosting plan, a paid cheap web hosting package, a VPS hosting server or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for specific web content only.