Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service means storing and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server hosted by a hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a glance at them. Doing so, you can elect what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a web site, e-mails, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular firms, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting packages are often supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer obliges you to wait for a given amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you buy a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the tasks at hand between autonomous hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different web page hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is only a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given vendors provide a hosting service for pictures solely. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share an enormous number of images with buddies or associates since the service is commonly free of charge. You will receive a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your e-mails. Some vendors offer web site hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email service. If you wish to own an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can set up email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a problem with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to have as many video files as you desire without bothering about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to possess a website. To some extent, it includes all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can create databases and mail aliases, upload videos, and so on. At Westgate WEBS Hosting and Free Domains, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular web content solely.