Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns keeping and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting company. There are different forms of hosting services used for different purposes, so let's have a peek at these. In that way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to launch a web portal, email box accounts, or to share files with mates and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution furnished by particular vendors, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a table of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php website files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts are frequently supported by showing adverts next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a particular interval of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely mistaken interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allot the tasks at hand between separate groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different web hosting services (electronic mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; given providers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you desire to share a vast amount of pictures with mates or associates since the service is commonly free. You will get a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to taking care of your mails. Some companies provide web site hosting services for web pages, but do not offer an email solution. If you desire to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution 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 includes 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 a given video clip, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a hosting account is that the video clip generates a given amount of CPU load, so with a few video clips and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web page hosting resources. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many videos as you would like without hassling about system supplies.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you would like to have a website. To some extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web pages, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At HostingBox, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse in comparison with the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are conceived for particular content exclusively.