Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies depositing and/or sharing specific web content on a server hosted by a hosting provider. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different aims, so let's take a look at these. In that way, you can decide what you need, based on whether you'd like to own a web page, mail aliases, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution offered by given vendors, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage solutions are often supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific stretch of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inaccurate explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between different hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a kind of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you would like to share an immense quantity of pictures with comrades or colleagues since the service is mostly free. You will obtain a random link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your electronic mail accounts. Some distributors provide site hosting services for sites, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you want to set up an email address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can set up mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to have as many videos as you would like without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to have a site. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and email aliases, upload videos, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular web content only.