Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution includes stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a server handled by a website hosting provider. There are different types of hosting services used for different goals, so let's review them. In this way, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a site, emails, or to share files with comrades and partners.

- File hosting: a solution provided by certain hosts, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file storage services are frequently supported by showing advertisements next to the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular period of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect explanation of the real connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the load between independent stacks of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is good if you would like to share a big amount of pictures with mates or associates since the service is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to tackling your email accounts. Some distributors provide web page hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an email hosting solution. If you desire to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a website, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can open e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have trouble with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will permit you to run as many video clips as you want without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to possess a website. To some degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At 100WebSpace, for example, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated server hosting accounts that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations based on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are created for specific web content exclusively.