Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting service means keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a server run by a website hosting company. There are various categories of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's have a peek at them. Thus, you can conclude what you want, depending on whether you'd like to build a blog, email accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given hosts, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only aim is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage solutions often involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly awry interpretation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the workload between separate hosts of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain firms provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting brand is appropriate if you would like to share an enormous quantity of images with buddies or acquaintances since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your emails. Some providers offer web site hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you would like to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have trouble with your site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will enable you to administer as many videos as you would like without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a website. To some extent, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email box accounts, upload videos, etc. At Radspace, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single place. There may be limits based 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. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the standard email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular content solely.