Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service refers to stockpiling and/or sharing particular web content on a hosting server managed by a web hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's examine them. In that way, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a website, email addresses, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular firms, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage packages frequently include advertisements by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable interpretation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between independent hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a great number of pics with friends or partners since the service is usually free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video file produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your hosting resources. Embedding the video file will allow you to administer as many video clips as you want without worrying about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to possess a site. To a certain degree, it involves all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse compared with the regular email/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific web content solely.