Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies saving and/or sharing given web content on a web server run by a web hosting vendor. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's survey these. In this way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you wish to create a web site, mail aliases, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by various hosts, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services are frequently supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy 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 as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a totally twisted explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would distribute the tasks at hand between autonomous groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web space hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share an enormous quantity of pictures with chums or partners since the service is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your e-mail address accounts. Some providers offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail solution. If you desire to possess an email address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to administer as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to run a web site. To a certain extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At BYTES AND TAGS, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the typical e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific web content solely.