Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service means saving and/or sharing specific content on a web server handled by a hosting supplier. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's survey these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you desire to have a web portal, electronic mail accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain companies, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file hosting services are often supported by showing adverts 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 restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely unsuitable interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between individual bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a big amount of pictures with chums or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to taking care of your e-mail address accounts. Some suppliers provide web space hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you wish to have 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 need. You can create mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of videos and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many videos as you want to without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to run a website. To a certain degree, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At ConeXioneXtendida, for example, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular web content solely.