Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to storing and/or sharing specific web content on a server handled by a website hosting company. There are different kinds of hosting services used for different goals, so let's explore these. Thus, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to set up a website, mail accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by some providers, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly 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 not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by showing advertisements by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, 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 providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would split the workload between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different webspace hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web page hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a big amount of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will receive a random link for each and every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to managing your email mailbox accounts. Some firms offer web page hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you want to own an email address with your domain name but do not want to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up email 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 email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to keep as many video files as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a website. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can have databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video files, etc. At WebHost-ing.com, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits based on the form of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific web content exclusively.