Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting service pertains to storing and/or sharing certain web content on a web hosting server administered by a web hosting distributor. There are different categories of hosting services used for various goals, so let's take a look at them. Doing so, you can pick what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to run a site, email mailbox accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various providers, which allows you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole objective is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to examine a register of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage plans are often supported by showing adverts by the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain period of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting traders, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly incorrect explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would allot the load between individual stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending different website hosting services (email, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a variety of a data storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; certain suppliers provide a hosting solution for images only. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a big quantity of pictures with chums or colleagues since the service is generally free of cost. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to administering your e-mail aliases. Some firms provide hosting solutions for web sites, but do not supply an e-mail hosting service. If you would like to launch an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to keep a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can set up electronic mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video clip, 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 in a web hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred viewers, you may have a problem with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will enable you to keep as many video clips as you wish without worrying about system reserves.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to own a website. To a certain degree, it encompasses all of the abovementioned hosting variants since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can run databases and e-mailbox accounts, upload videos, and so on. At 50Webs Web Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated hosting packages that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the usual email/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular web content only.