Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests depositing and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting provider. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a gaze at these. Thus, you can decide what you need, based on whether you wish to own a website, mails, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain hosts, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not support site 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 view a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting services are frequently supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given amount of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a totally false interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between different packs of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web space hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific distributors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share a huge amount of pics with pals or partners since the solution is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your e-mails. Some providers provide website hosting solutions for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you want to open an email address with your domain name but do not desire to own a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to utilize as many videos as you desire without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to run a website. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload video files, etc. At YourSiteService.com, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for particular web content only.