Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service concerns saving and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a website hosting company. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's take a look at these. In this way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to build a site, email address accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution provided by particular firms, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious interpretation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would distribute the load between autonomous sets of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving various site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share a vast number of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your electronic mail accounts. Some companies provide hosting solutions for sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you would like to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have difficulty with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to have as many video files as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to keep a site. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mail addresses, upload videos, and so on. At Westgate WEBS Hosting and Free Domains, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific content solely.