Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with depositing and/or sharing particular content on a server managed by a web hosting provider. There are different groups of hosting services utilized for various purposes, so let's have a glance at them. In that way, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to create a web site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with pals and associates.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular firms, which lets you share big files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage packages are frequently supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely improper interpretation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between individual packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending different website hosting services (email, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a variety of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain distributors offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting variant is appropriate if you want to share a vast amount of pics with comrades or acquaintances since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to taking care of your email addresses. Some corporations offer web hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can set up mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves 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 specific video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a particular amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred site viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to administer as many videos as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to keep a website. To a certain degree, it contains all of the aforementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail box accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At JoshWho Hosting, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated hosting solutions that allow you to get all of the aforesaid services in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the sort of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific web content exclusively.