Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution pertains to keeping and/or sharing particular content on a web server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various sorts of hosting services used for various goals, so let's examine these. In this way, you can elect what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to have a web site, e-mail addresses, or to share files with pals and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service distributed by various companies, which allows you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only objective is to share files, since it does not support web page uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either get 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 files in your browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans frequently involve advertisements beside the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a particular amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you have a paid file hosting package, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inapt explanation of the literal denotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would divide the load between autonomous stacks of servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting Control Panel, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a type of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting variant is good if you wish to share a big amount of pictures with mates or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of charge. You will receive a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- Email hosting: a service committed to tackling your email address accounts. Some suppliers provide web space hosting solutions for websites, but do not provide an email hosting solution. If you desire to have a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a web site, then the email hosting service is what you want. You can open e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video clip in your site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video clips and a few hundred website viewers, you may have trouble with your web page hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to administer as many video clips as you desire without worrying about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to run a web site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting sorts since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can keep databases and mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Herbie's domains, for example, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated web hosting accounts that permit you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one location. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've picked - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting plan, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared with the usual email/file/video/image hosting packages that are planned for specific web content exclusively.