Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns stockpiling and/or sharing specific web content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting vendor. There are different groups of hosting services used for various goals, so let's have a glance at them. Thus, you can choose what you need, based on whether you desire to establish a web portal, mail accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given vendors, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally inaccurate interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would split the workload between different bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some firms provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share a vast amount of pics with pals or acquaintances since the service is mostly free. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to managing your e-mail box accounts. Some firms offer webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to possess a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to keep as many videos as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a website. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and mailbox accounts, upload video files, etc. At Reseller Hosting information, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific content exclusively.