Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to hoarding and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services used for different ends, so let's survey them. In that way, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you'd like to have a web portal, mail addresses, or to share files with mates and partners.

- File hosting: a service delivered by some providers, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site 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 see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are often supported by displaying advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inappropriate explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would share the load between individual sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web page hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given companies provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you desire to share a huge number of pics with mates or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will receive 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 used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your mail aliases. Some corporations offer web space hosting solutions for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to keep an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you need. You can create email box 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 solution 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 in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to have as many video clips as you want without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to own a website. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and mail address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At System X Designs, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforesaid services in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the ordinary e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are conceived for particular content only.