Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves hoarding and/or sharing given content on a hosting server administered by a web hosting company. There are various sorts of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a look at these. Doing so, you can pick what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to run a site, email box accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various providers, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution 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 get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine an index of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage services are often supported by exhibiting ads by the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a given amount of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file storage plan, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting vendors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inappropriate interpretation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would share the tasks at hand between separate hosts of hosting servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various website hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given companies provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you want to share a huge amount of pictures with chums or colleagues since the service is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for each pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to managing your e-mail box accounts. Some firms provide web hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting service. If you desire to set up an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can open mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to some video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of video files and a few hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web page hosting supplies. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to keep a site. To a certain extent, it contains all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and e-mail address accounts, upload video files, and so on. At MD-Dot Webhosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated web server hosting services that permit you to have all of the abovementioned services in one place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've settled on - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for particular content only.