Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting service applies to keeping and/or sharing certain content on a web hosting server administered by a hosting vendor. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various purposes, so let's take a peek at them. In this way, you can decide what you want, depending on whether you'd like to run a web portal, mail addresses, or to share files with buddies and associates.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given hosts, which enables you to share immense files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free file hosting services are frequently supported by showing adverts beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific stretch of time to perceive them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file hosting package, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

Now, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly distorted explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between separate packs of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web page hosting services (mail, disk space, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: close to file hosting; some providers provide a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a huge number of pictures with buddies or colleagues since the solution is typically free. You will receive 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 supported, so the solution cannot be used for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service committed to taking care of your email accounts. Some distributors provide web hosting solutions for web pages, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you would like to own an email address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can set up e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this approach in lieu of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip creates a certain amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred web page visitors, you may have difficulty with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video will enable you to use as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you require if you wish to run a website. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting brands since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and e-mail accounts, upload video files, and so on. At Joomla CMS Hosting, for example, you can see web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforesaid services in one single location. There may be limits depending on the form of hosting solution that you've settled on - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared to the customary e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are meant for specific content only.