Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests saving and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are various classes of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a glimpse at them. Thus, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to have a site, email address accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by particular file storage providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by exhibiting adverts by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely untrue interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the workload between individual bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share an immense number of pics with chums or associates since the service is usually free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will permit you to manage as many videos as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a site. To some degree, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email address accounts, upload videos, etc. At FaceHosting.com, for instance, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific content exclusively.