Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns storing and/or sharing particular web content on a server managed by a website hosting supplier. There are different groups of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a glimpse at these. Doing so, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to own a web page, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various firms, which permits you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not support web 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 read a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file storage services frequently include advertisements next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific amount of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you run a paid file hosting plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is a totally untrue interpretation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would share the load between independent packs of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (email, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting brand is good if you want to share a vast number of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is commonly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image 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 pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your email aliases. Some suppliers provide web space hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an email solution. If you want to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video file in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video clips and several hundred website viewers, you may have a problem with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will permit you to own as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you require if you want to possess a website. To some degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and emails, upload videos, and so on. At Softcare Servers, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are purposed for specific web content only.