Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to stashing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server hosted by a web hosting vendor. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's have a peek at them. In that way, you can pick what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a web page, email accounts, or to share files with comrades and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service furnished by given web hosts, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage plans are often supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to wait for a certain period of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, 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.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely incorrect explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would split the workload between autonomous hosts of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving different web page hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some providers offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting variant is good if you desire to share an immense quantity of pics with pals or colleagues since the service is usually free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to handling your emails. Some corporations provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to possess an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open e-mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a given amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and a few hundred site visitors, you may have a hard time with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will allow you to utilize as many video files as you would like without hassling about system quotas.

- Website hosting: this is the solution that you need if you would like to possess a website. To some extent, it consists of all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At kap2, for example, you can have a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that allow you to have all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular web content solely.