Forms of hosting solutions

A hosting solution involves saving and/or sharing certain web content on a hosting server handled by a website hosting supplier. There are various varieties of hosting services utilized for different ends, so let's have a look at these. Thus, you can conclude what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to own a blog, mails, or to share files with friends and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a solution delivered by particular providers, which lets you share enormous files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, etc. This service is also known as file storage, and its only purpose is to share files, since it does not offer site uploading. The moment the files are uploaded, you will either receive an accidentally created download link for each of them, or you will be able to survey a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to view .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free-of-charge file storage services frequently involve adverts beside the download links, while a timer forces you to wait for a particular span of time to perceive them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you possess a paid file storage account, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no limitation in regard to the download speed or the file size.

Nowadays, with the help of the cPanel hosting providers, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is an entirely wrong interpretation of the real meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would allocate the load between independent groups of servers in a cluster, which are devoted to attending various web page hosting services (email, storage space, stats, DNS, databases, site hosting CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is simply a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific vendors offer a hosting service for pictures exclusively. This hosting kind is suitable if you would like to share a vast quantity of pictures with chums or associates since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will receive a randomly generated link for every image or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage service, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the service cannot be used for web pages.

- E-mail hosting: a solution devoted to handling your electronic mail accounts. Some suppliers provide web hosting services for web pages, but do not supply an e-mail service. If you would like to keep an email address with your domain name but do not want to keep a web site, then the e-mail hosting solution is what you require. You can open email box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP email servers.

- Video hosting: this solution allows you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to some video clip, or you can embed the video file in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video file in a hosting account is that the video produces a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred visitors, you may have difficulty with your website hosting supplies. Embedding the video file will enable you to own as many video files as you want to without worrying about system quotas.

- Web site hosting: this is the service that you need if you want to run a site. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pictures and files, you can have databases and email aliases, upload video clips, and so on. At RazorSharpDomains, for instance, you can take a look at web hosting and dedicated server hosting packages that enable you to have all of the aforesaid solutions in a single location. There may be limitations based on the type of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting package, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your web page hosting package may be better or worse in comparison with the normal e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are designed for specific content exclusively.