Types of hosting solutions

A hosting service is associated with keeping and/or sharing certain web content on a web server hosted by a hosting supplier. There are different types of hosting services used for different aims, so let's explore these. In that way, you can conclude what you want, based on whether you'd like to establish a site, email box accounts, or to share files with friends and partners.

- File hosting: a service offered by some providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, etc. This solution is also known as file storage, and its only function is to share files, since it does not support website uploading. Once the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting accounts often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain amount of time to view them. A given file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you possess a paid file hosting package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limit with regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting merchants, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more voguish "cloud hosting". This is an entirely inapt explanation of the actual definition of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting environment would allocate the load between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous site hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, webspace hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is only a kind of a data storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; specific firms offer a hosting solution for pictures only. This hosting brand is suitable if you wish to share a vast quantity of pictures with friends or acquaintances since the service is mostly free of charge. You will get a random link for each and every picture or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be utilized for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to administering your email box accounts. Some vendors offer web site hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you desire to own a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to possess a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail box accounts and manage them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The e-mail hosting service includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this solution enables you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a particular video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of availing of this approach instead of uploading the video file in a web hosting account is that the video file produces a specific amount of CPU load, so with a couple of video files and several hundred web site visitors, you may have a hard time with your hosting resources. Embedding the video will permit you to operate as many video clips as you want to without bothering about system resources.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the abovementioned hosting varieties since, along with your web sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and e-mail accounts, upload videos, etc. At myhostnet, for example, you can take a gaze at web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in a single place. There may be limitations depending on the type of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your webspace hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the common email/file/video/image hosting plans that are planned for particular content only.