Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting service implies hoarding and/or sharing particular content on a web hosting server run by a hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a glance at them. In that way, you can decide what you need, based on whether you desire to launch a site, email addresses, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by given vendors, which allows you to share immense files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archives, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole goal is to share files, since it does not support site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either obtain an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to see an inventory of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to view .html or .php web page files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file hosting plans often involve ads beside the download links, while a timer compels you to await a specific stretch of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you get a paid file hosting account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no restriction in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a totally erroneous explanation of the literal connotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would assign the load between autonomous bunches of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (mail, data storage, statistics, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting service is simply a variety of a disk storage hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; some suppliers offer a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting type is suitable if you want to share an immense number of pics with comrades or associates since the service is usually free of cost. You will obtain a random link for every pic or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not supported, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- Email hosting: a service devoted to handling your email addresses. Some providers provide web page hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you want to run an e-mail address with your domain name but do not want to run a site, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting service for the domains. The email hosting solution includes incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a particular video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of using this method instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video generates a particular amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video clips and several hundred website visitors, you may have a hard time with your web hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will allow you to utilize as many video clips as you would like without worrying about system reserves.

- Web page hosting: this is the solution that you require if you want to keep a website. To some degree, it comprises all of the aforementioned hosting groups since, along with your web pages, you can also host pics and files, you can keep databases and email box accounts, upload video files, etc. At Hostadia, for example, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated server hosting solutions that enable you to get all of the aforesaid solutions in one place. There may be limitations depending on the kind of hosting solution that you've opted for - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your web hosting plan may be better or worse compared to the standard e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are created for specific content exclusively.