Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is related to stockpiling and/or sharing specific content on a server handled by a hosting distributor. There are different classes of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's explore these. Thus, you can determine what you need, depending on whether you desire to build a website, mail address accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by given companies, which allows you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either get an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to see a list of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to load .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage accounts are often supported by showing advertisements beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a given period of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you own a paid file storage package, 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 assistance of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly awry explanation of the real definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would distribute the load between individual sets of hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous hosting services (electronic mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, web page hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a sort of a disk space hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; certain companies offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting variant is appropriate if you would like to share a large number of images with mates or partners since the service is commonly free of cost. You will obtain a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for websites.

- Email hosting: a service dedicated to administering your emails. Some distributors provide webspace hosting services for web sites, but do not supply an email hosting solution. If you desire to launch a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to run a site, then the email hosting solution is what you require. You can open mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP 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 file in your web site that is hosted elsewhere. The advantage of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video brings about a specific amount of central processing unit load, so with a couple of video files and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have a problem with your website hosting resources. Embedding the video file will permit you to administer as many video files as you would like without bothering about system resources.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you need if you desire to keep a website. To a certain extent, it incorporates all of the abovementioned hosting kinds since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and e-mail addresses, upload video files, etc. At Consultingforge Hosting Ltd., for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the aforementioned solutions in one place. There may be limitations depending on the sort of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your site hosting account may be better or worse compared to the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting accounts that are planned for specific web content solely.