Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution refers to keeping and/or sharing certain content on a server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are various groups of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's take a look at these. Thus, you can determine what you want, based on whether you desire to establish a site, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with pals and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service supplied by various companies, which lets you share large files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an index of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting services are often supported by exhibiting ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific span of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you run a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction with regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely fallacious interpretation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the workload between separate sets of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various webspace hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, web space hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a brand of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some firms offer a hosting solution for images only. This hosting variant is suitable if you wish to share a vast number of pics with pals or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to administering your mail accounts. Some vendors offer web hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video file, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred web site viewers, you may have a hard time with your web hosting resources. Embedding the video will enable you to run as many video files as you want without hassling about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you would like to have a web site. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the aforementioned hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can create databases and email box accounts, upload video files, etc. At CWin Systems Software, for example, you can take a peek at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that permit you to get all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limits depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the conventional e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content exclusively.