Categories of hosting solutions

A hosting solution appertains to stashing and/or sharing particular content on a web server run by a hosting vendor. There are various classes of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's take a look at these. Thus, you can decide what you need, on the basis of whether you wish to run a blog, mail addresses, or to share files with mates and associates.

- File hosting: a solution distributed by various hosts, which permits you to share big files. These could be disk images, motion pictures, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its single objective is to share files, since it does not offer web 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 read a roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to see .html or .php web site files in your web browser. Free-of-charge file storage services are often supported by showing ads by the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a specific amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with restricted speed. If you get a paid file storage account, there are no restrictions as to how many files you can upload/download immediately, and also there is no limit in regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting wholesalers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more fashionable "cloud hosting". This is an entirely awry interpretation of the actual connotation of "cloud hosting". A real cloud website hosting platform would divide the load between individual packs of web servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving various webspace hosting services (mail, disk storage, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is only a brand of a storage space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; given providers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting variant is suitable if you desire to share an immense number of pics with chums or colleagues since the solution is commonly free of charge. You will get a randomly generated link for each and every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file hosting service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution dedicated to managing your email box accounts. Some companies provide hosting services for websites, but do not supply an e-mail solution. If you would like to open an e-mail address with your domain name but do not desire to have a site, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can set up e-mailbox accounts and manage them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting service involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP e-mail servers.

- Video hosting: this service enables you to upload and share video clips. You can either share a link to a specific video file, or you can embed the video file in your site that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of availing of this method instead of uploading the video in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of video files and a few hundred website viewers, you may have a hard time with your webspace hosting quotas. Embedding the video clip will permit you to utilize as many videos as you want without hassling about system supplies.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you need if you want to possess a site. To some degree, it involves all of the aforesaid hosting sorts since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can have databases and email box accounts, upload video clips, etc. At Supreme Hosting, for example, you can take a glance at web hosting and dedicated web server hosting packages that allow you to get all of the abovementioned services in one single location. There may be limitations depending on the form of hosting solution that you've chosen - a free hosting package, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting package may be better or worse compared with the common e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for particular web content only.