Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a web server managed by a website hosting provider. There are different forms of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a peek at these. In this way, you can pick what you want, based on whether you'd like to own a web site, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service offered by various vendors, which enables you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans frequently involve advertisements next to the download links, while a timer obliges you to await a specific spell of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchandisers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a totally incorrect explanation of the actual denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the workload between separate sets of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different web site hosting services (mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is good if you want to share a huge quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to taking care of your email box accounts. Some providers provide site hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email solution. If you wish to create an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a web site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video generates a certain amount of CPU load, so with several video clips and a few hundred visitors, you may have a hard time with your site hosting quotas. Embedding the video will permit you to run as many video files as you want to without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you desire to keep a web site. To a certain degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and electronic mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At World Point Site Hosting, for instance, you can view web hosting and dedicated web server hosting plans that allow you to have all of the aforementioned services in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting account may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are devised for specific content only.