Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service applies to storing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server hosted by a hosting company. There are different types of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's examine these. Doing so, you can decide what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a web site, mail addresses, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by some firms, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, 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 support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive 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 open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely wrong explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would divide the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some distributors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share an immense number of pictures with buddies or colleagues since the service is usually free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to tackling your electronic mail accounts. Some corporations provide website hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can set up e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few videos and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to use as many video files as you would like without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a website. To a certain extent, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At Exclusive Hosting, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for particular web content only.