Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution entails depositing and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server handled by a web hosting supplier. There are various sorts of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a glance at them. In this way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to establish a weblog, mailbox accounts, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular companies, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts are often supported by displaying adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly untrue explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between autonomous groups of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web page hosting services (mail, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain vendors offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a large quantity of pics with buddies or associates since the solution is mostly free. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to handling your mailbox accounts. Some vendors offer web page hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail solution. If you wish to create a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up email mailbox 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 mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a handful of video files and several hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to administer as many videos as you desire without hassling about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a website. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Apple Hosting, for example, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse compared to the usual e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific web content only.