Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves keeping and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server hosted by a website hosting provider. There are different categories of hosting services utilized for various goals, so let's have a gaze at them. Doing so, you can choose what you want, depending on whether you desire to set up a web portal, e-mail aliases, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by particular providers, which permits you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its single designation is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php website files in your browser. Free-of-cost file hosting plans are frequently supported by displaying ads by the download links, while a timer makes you await a given interval of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy a paid file storage account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download at once, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inaccurate explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would allocate the load between individual hosts of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to serving miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, web site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is simply a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain providers offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting variant is suitable if you would like to share a large quantity of pictures with pals or colleagues since the service is typically free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to handling your e-mails. Some suppliers offer webspace hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an e-mail service. If you would like to have a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you need. You can open email mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service permits you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video file creates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and several hundred web site viewers, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to operate as many videos as you want to without worrying about system resources.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to run a website. To some extent, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting categories since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and email address accounts, upload video clips, etc. At CabbageTree Solutions, for instance, you can have a peek at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that permit you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting package may be better or worse juxtaposed to the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are tailored for particular content solely.