Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes saving and/or sharing specific web content on a server administered by a website hosting distributor. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a gaze at them. In this way, you can determine what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to run a web page, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by particular web hosts, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a given period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would apportion the workload between independent packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a large amount of images with buddies or acquaintances since the service is commonly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mail accounts. Some firms provide web hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you wish to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open email address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to administer as many video files as you want to without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to run a site. To a certain extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At hostingdad, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for particular content exclusively.