Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to keeping and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server hosted by a hosting vendor. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a peek at these. In that way, you can pick what you want, based on whether you wish to launch a site, e-mails, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by given companies, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally wrong interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would divide the load between autonomous groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various web page hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share a vast quantity of pics with pals or partners since the service is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated link for each pic 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 utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email accounts. Some companies provide web hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting service. If you want 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 want. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service 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 videos. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a particular amount of CPU load, so with a few videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to have as many videos as you wish without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to own a site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and emails, upload video clips, etc. At Professional WEB Hosting, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the standard email/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific web content solely.