Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with stashing and/or sharing certain content on a hosting server handled by a hosting provider. There are different varieties of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a gaze at these. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a blog, email box accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a solution offered by various firms, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts are frequently supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the tasks at hand between independent packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific providers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a large amount of pics with comrades or partners since the service is commonly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to tackling your email accounts. Some corporations offer web space hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you wish to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have trouble with your hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to use as many videos as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to have a site. To a certain extent, it includes all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and e-mail address accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Cloud4Host, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific web content exclusively.