Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is associated with stockpiling and/or sharing certain content on a web server managed by a hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a glimpse at them. Doing so, you can determine what you want, based on whether you wish to build a blog, email box accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular companies, which permits you to 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 sole goal is to share files, since it does not support web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a register of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, 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.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly unsuitable explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the workload between different packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending different web space hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a kind of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain providers provide a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you desire to share an immense number of pics with chums or acquaintances since the solution is usually free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your e-mail addresses. Some suppliers offer hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you want to get a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to possess a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can open mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file brings about a given amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your website hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a site. To some degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email accounts, upload video files, etc. At Hosting NOLIMITS, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific content exclusively.