Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service is related to stockpiling and/or sharing certain web content on a server managed by a hosting supplier. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's study them. In this way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to build a web page, e-mail address accounts, or to share files with buddies and colleagues.

- File hosting: a service made available by given hosts, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans frequently involve ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given span of time to observe them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage plan, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

These days, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is a completely mistaken interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would share the workload between individual bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous hosting services (email, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is merely a variety of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some corporations offer a hosting solution for pictures exclusively. This hosting brand is appropriate if you want to share a great quantity of pics with friends or acquaintances since the solution is generally free. You will obtain a random link for each and every pic or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your e-mails. Some companies provide site hosting services for sites, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you want to run a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to run a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can create e-mail box 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 servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your website hosting quotas. Embedding the video file will permit you to keep as many video clips as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to have a site. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the aforementioned hosting types since, along with your websites, you can also host pictures and files, you can run databases and mail aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At HostingBox, for instance, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one single place. There may be limitations based on the sort of hosting solution that you've picked - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web site hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the regular email/file/video/image hosting plans that are meant for particular web content exclusively.