Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies stockpiling and/or sharing particular content on a server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are different kinds of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's take a peek at these. In that way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to run a web page, email aliases, or to share files with comrades and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain web hosts, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated 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 load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file storage plans are often supported by exhibiting adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given interval of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a completely untrue explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the load between autonomous sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web page hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; certain suppliers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting type is appropriate if you wish to share an enormous amount of pics with friends or partners since the service is typically free of charge. You will obtain a random link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to handling your email aliases. Some firms provide web space hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you wish to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not want to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will allow you to possess as many videos as you desire without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to own a web site. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At elexhosting, for instance, you can take a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting services that allow you to have all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limitations based on the kind of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular content exclusively.