Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a server administered by a hosting distributor. There are various classes of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can conclude what you need, depending on whether you wish to have a weblog, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by certain web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans often include adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a given period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting account, there are no limits 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 help of the cPanel hosting suppliers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely imprecise explanation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would allot the workload between independent packs of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a variety of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; given corporations offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a great quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the service is usually free of charge. You will receive a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to tackling your email box accounts. Some suppliers offer web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email solution. If you want to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a website, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video clips and several hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video file will enable you to possess as many videos as you want without worrying about system supplies.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting variants since, along with your sites, you can also host images and files, you can keep databases and electronic mail accounts, upload videos, and so on. At Exclusive Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web space hosting account may be better or worse compared to the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are made for particular web content solely.