Types of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies stashing and/or sharing particular web content on a web server handled by a web hosting distributor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various aims, so let's study these. Doing so, you can choose what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to launch a web site, email accounts, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a record of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting solutions are frequently supported by displaying adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a given period of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incongruous interpretation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would assign the load between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving various website hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a sort of a storage space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; given distributors provide a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting type is appropriate if you would like to share a huge number of pictures with comrades or acquaintances since the service is generally free of charge. You will get a random link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be used for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution devoted to administering your email address accounts. Some suppliers provide site hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to have an email address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a handful of videos and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a hard time with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to have as many video files as you want without worrying about system reserves.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to keep a website. To some degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host pics and files, you can set up databases and email aliases, upload video files, etc. At CabbageTree Solutions, for example, you can view web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are created for specific content solely.