Kinds of hosting solutions

A hosting service includes hoarding and/or sharing given web content on a hosting server managed by a hosting provider. There are different classes of hosting services used for different goals, so let's have a peek at these. In this way, you can conclude what you need, based on whether you desire to establish a website, email accounts, or to share files with comrades and associates.

- File hosting: a solution offered by certain firms, which allows you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer web site uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your web browser. Free file hosting packages often include adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular period of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

Now, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely untrue explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting environment would divide the workload between autonomous stacks of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to serving miscellaneous web hosting services (email, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, website hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a sort of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: akin to file hosting; specific vendors provide a hosting solution for pictures solely. This hosting brand is good if you desire to share a big amount of images with comrades or acquaintances since the solution is generally free of charge. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be utilized for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your email mailbox accounts. Some companies provide web site hosting solutions for sites, but do not provide an email hosting service. If you want to get a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the email hosting service is what you need. You can create mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a given video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a few video files and a few hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting supplies. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many video clips as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a site. To some extent, it consists of all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web sites, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and mail aliases, upload video files, and so on. At Supreme BroadBand Hosting, for instance, you can have a glimpse at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting solutions that permit you to have all of the aforementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting account may be better or worse in comparison with the ordinary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are made for particular content solely.