Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to stashing and/or sharing specific content on a web hosting server run by a hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services used for different ends, so let's have a glance at these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you'd like to set up a web page, email addresses, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service distributed by given firms, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage solutions are often supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

These days, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly imprecise explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the load between independent sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web page hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is just a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a big amount of pics with friends or partners since the service is typically free of cost. You will get a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to handling your email addresses. Some companies provide webspace hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you desire to manage a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can set up email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video file generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video files and several hundred site viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to possess as many videos as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to keep a site. To some degree, it encompasses all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mails, upload video clips, etc. At Free Hostia, for instance, you can explore web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are intended for particular content only.