Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution is connected with depositing and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server handled by a website hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for various ends, so let's take a gaze at these. Thus, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you'd like to build a site, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and associates.

- File hosting: a service furnished by certain hosts, which enables you to share huge files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to explore a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free file hosting accounts are frequently supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer compels you to await a certain amount of time to see them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you have a paid file storage plan, 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 present, with the help of the cPanel hosting firms, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more stylish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely erroneous interpretation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting system would apportion the tasks at hand between individual bunches of web servers in a cluster, which are committed to attending various web site hosting services (mail, storage space, statistics, DNS, databases, web site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting solution is merely a variety of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; some providers offer a hosting service for images solely. This hosting kind is appropriate if you would like to share a vast number of pics with pals or colleagues since the solution is mostly free of cost. You will obtain a randomly generated link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

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

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted elsewhere. The benefit of availing of this approach in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video clip produces a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred web page viewers, you may have a problem with your web space hosting reserves. Embedding the video will allow you to use as many video files as you want without bothering about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you require if you desire to run a web site. To some degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting forms since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can set up databases and email mailbox accounts, upload video clips, etc. At 2HostLive Networks, for instance, you can have a gaze at web hosting and dedicated web hosting plans that allow you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be restrictions based on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting plan, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your website hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the customary email/file/video/image hosting plans that are conceived for particular content exclusively.