Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with keeping and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's study these. In that way, you can determine what you want, based on whether you'd like to have a site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service delivered by particular providers, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans often involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a certain span of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally awry interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between separate stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain corporations provide a hosting service for images solely. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a vast amount of images with mates or colleagues since the solution is typically free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a specific amount of CPU load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to own as many video clips as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to own a web site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video files, and so on. At WebHost-ing.com, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for specific web content only.