Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes storing and/or sharing given web content on a server run by a hosting supplier. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a peek at them. In this way, you can pick what you need, depending on whether you wish to create a web page, e-mail aliases, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution offered by certain hosts, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting solutions often include ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally unsuitable interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between autonomous hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different webspace hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; given suppliers provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a big quantity of pics with comrades or partners since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a random link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have difficulty with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will enable you to manage as many videos as you would like without hassling about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Number One Hosting Company, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are made for particular content exclusively.