Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting service involves saving and/or sharing given content on a web server administered by a hosting supplier. There are various forms of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's study them. Doing so, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to run a web site, email accounts, or to share files with friends and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by some file storage providers, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage services frequently include ads beside the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a given spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally awry explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the tasks at hand between autonomous bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a brand of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; some corporations provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you would like to share an enormous number of pictures with mates or colleagues since the solution is mostly free. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to managing your mailbox accounts. Some firms provide website hosting services for sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you desire to run an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will permit you to run as many video files as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to own a web site. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mail addresses, upload video clips, etc. At Host MM, for example, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are devised for specific content only.