Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution means keeping and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server handled by a web hosting company. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for different purposes, so let's take a glimpse at these. In this way, you can elect what you want, based on whether you'd like to set up a site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by given vendors, which lets you share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support website 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 read a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file storage solutions are frequently supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a certain spell of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, 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 stylish "cloud hosting". This is a completely fallacious interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between separate bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various hosting services (email, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given vendors offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you desire to share an immense number of images with chums or partners since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your email aliases. Some companies provide website hosting services for sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you want to manage an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can create mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to some video file, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have difficulty with your web page hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many video clips as you wish without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to possess a site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email addresses, upload videos, etc. At Integrated Solutions, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are intended for specific web content solely.