Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests saving and/or sharing particular web content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting supplier. There are various groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a look at these. Doing so, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you wish to establish a website, mail addresses, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service offered by particular hosts, which lets you share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not support web page 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 survey a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are often supported by displaying adverts next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a specific period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incongruous interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would split the load between different bunches of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web space hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; specific suppliers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share a vast number of images with mates or associates since the service is usually free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and 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 service cannot be utilized for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your email aliases. Some vendors offer website hosting solutions for websites, but do not offer an email hosting service. If you wish to open a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can create email mailbox accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to own as many video files as you would like without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to have a web site. To a certain extent, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At Lonex, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single location. There may be restrictions depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular email/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for particular web content only.