Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to saving and/or sharing given content on a web hosting server managed by a website hosting distributor. There are various forms of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can decide what you want, based on whether you'd like to build a web portal, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by certain web hosts, which permits you to share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file storage accounts frequently involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file storage package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting retailers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely wrong explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would split the load between different sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different site hosting services (mail, disk space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting service for pictures only. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a vast number of pictures with chums or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

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

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a certain amount of CPU load, so with a few video files and a few hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video will enable you to keep as many video files as you would like without hassling about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to possess a site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At 100WebSpace, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that enable you to have all of the aforementioned services in one place. There may be limits based on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse compared with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are devised for specific content solely.