Sorts of hosting solutions

A hosting solution applies to saving and/or sharing specific web content on a server run by a web hosting company. There are different sorts of hosting services used for various ends, so let's have a look at them. In this way, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to launch a weblog, e-mails, or to share files with buddies and partners.

- File hosting: a solution supplied by given vendors, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, 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 support web site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive a randomly created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a table of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web files in your browser. Free file storage services are frequently supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you buy 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 restriction as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At the moment, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allot the tasks at hand between independent packs of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving miscellaneous site hosting services (electronic mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is just a brand of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some vendors offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a vast quantity of images with mates or partners since the solution is typically free. You will receive a randomly generated link for every picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a solution committed to managing your email box accounts. Some suppliers provide web page hosting services for websites, but do not offer an e-mail service. If you desire to get an e-mail address with your domain name but do not wish to own a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you want. You can create electronic mail accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share video files. You can either share a link to a certain video, or you can embed the video in your website that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of utilizing this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with several videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to utilize as many video files as you desire without hassling about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the solution that you require if you would like to possess a web site. To some degree, it incorporates all of the aforesaid hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and mail address accounts, upload video clips, and so on. At Supreme Hosting, for instance, you can see web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that permit you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits depending on the kind of hosting service that you've chosen - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web page hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the conventional email/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific content only.