Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service means depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a server run by a hosting company. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's review these. In this way, you can determine what you need, based on whether you'd like to establish a web page, e-mail accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various firms, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single 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 created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages frequently include ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a certain amount of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the workload between independent stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending miscellaneous hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you wish to share a big number of pictures with friends or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will obtain 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 supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to handling your e-mail accounts. Some suppliers provide web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you wish to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to administer as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to own a website. To a certain degree, it involves all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, etc. At Get a Dot Name, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific content only.