Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service concerns keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a web server hosted by a web hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a peek at them. Doing so, you can conclude what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to establish a blog, mail accounts, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service made available by some web hosts, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage packages are often supported by exhibiting advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular interval of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allocate the tasks at hand between separate sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web page hosting services (email, web space, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a sort of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you desire to share a large number of pics with pals or partners since the service is typically free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to handling your e-mail aliases. Some vendors provide web hosting solutions for web sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to open a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create email box accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip creates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video will permit you to keep as many video clips as you want without bothering about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to own a web site. To some degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting types since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are designed for particular web content solely.