Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a server hosted by a hosting distributor. There are various groups of hosting services used for various ends, so let's take a glance at these. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to create a weblog, mailbox accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution made available by various web hosts, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are frequently supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely erroneous explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allocate the load between autonomous groups of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web site hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share a big quantity of pictures with friends or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will receive a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service devoted to tackling your mail addresses. Some distributors provide site hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you would like to have a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open mail address accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service 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 some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have difficulty with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to keep as many videos as you want without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to have a web site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Sitewarehouse, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the kind 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 page hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific content solely.