Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to saving and/or sharing specific content on a server managed by a web hosting company. There are various kinds of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's take a peek at them. In that way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you desire to own a site, mail addresses, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a service provided by some file storage providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file storage packages are frequently supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer makes you await a particular span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, 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 the moment, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly inapt explanation of the actual meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would split the workload between separate packs of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous website hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific companies provide a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you desire to share a huge quantity of pictures with mates or colleagues since the service is mostly 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 hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your mailbox accounts. Some suppliers offer webspace hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to have an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to own as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you wish to have a web site. To some extent, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At Mayo-Crespo, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web space hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for particular content exclusively.