Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service means keeping and/or sharing specific web content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, based on whether you wish to build a blog, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by some hosts, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages are frequently supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a certain amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely awry explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would distribute the workload between different bunches of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different webspace hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given firms provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a great quantity of images with mates or partners since the service is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to taking care of your e-mails. Some vendors provide hosting services for websites, but do not supply an email solution. If you would like to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to run a site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At My hosting company, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for particular content exclusively.