Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes hoarding and/or sharing specific web content on a server handled by a web hosting company. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a glimpse at them. In this way, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to launch a web site, mail accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular vendors, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only goal is to share files, since it does not offer site 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 examine a record 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 plans frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular spell of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly erroneous explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between autonomous packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a kind of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific corporations offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is good if you wish to share an immense quantity of images with mates or associates since the service is usually free of cost. You will receive a random link for every image 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 used for sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to run as many video files as you want without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you wish to have a web site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the routine email/file/video/image hosting plans that are intended for specific web content solely.