Kinds of hosting solutions
A hosting service concerns saving and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are different sorts of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a gaze at these. Thus, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you desire to run a blog, email addresses, or to share files with mates and associates.
- File hosting: a solution supplied by some file storage providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a particular stretch of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.
At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely imprecise interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allot the load between independent packs of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.
- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you wish to share a large amount of pics with friends or acquaintances since the solution is typically free of charge. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.
- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to managing your email address accounts. Some providers provide web site hosting services for sites, but do not provide an email solution. If you would like to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.
- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to manage as many videos as you want without hassling about system reserves.
- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to keep a web site. To some degree, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Hostomedia, for instance, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific content only.