Forms of hosting solutions
A hosting service is connected with hoarding and/or sharing certain content on a server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a look at them. In that way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a site, e-mail aliases, or to share files with chums and associates.
- File hosting: a service provided by particular web hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table 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 hosting plans are frequently supported by exhibiting advertisements by the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.
These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely untrue interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between separate hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is merely a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.
- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share a huge amount of pics with pals or acquaintances since the solution is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.
- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your e-mail address accounts. Some vendors offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to manage an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.
- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many videos as you wish without hassling about system resources.
- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to own a site. To a certain extent, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for specific web content exclusively.