Groups of hosting solutions

A hosting solution concerns storing and/or sharing specific content on a hosting server administered by a website hosting supplier. There are different sorts of hosting services used for different goals, so let's take a glance at them. In this way, you can determine what you need, on the basis of whether you'd like to create a web site, e-mail box accounts, or to share files with buddies and acquaintances.

- File hosting: a service delivered by some providers, which permits you to share bulky files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archived documents, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single goal is to share files, since it does not offer website uploading. Once 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 roster of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to open .html or .php web site files in your browser. Free file storage accounts are frequently supported by displaying ads beside the download links, while a timer forces you to await a certain amount of time to see them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file storage package, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download instantly, and also there is no limitation with regard to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting companies, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more faddish "cloud hosting". This is a thoroughly fallacious explanation of the literal definition of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would split the load between individual sets of web hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending miscellaneous web space hosting services (electronic mail, web space, statistics, DNS, databases, web space hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk storage hosting solution, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even near.

- Image hosting: comparable with file hosting; some suppliers provide a hosting solution for images exclusively. This hosting brand is suitable if you want to share a great quantity of pics with buddies or partners since the solution is commonly free of cost. You will get a random link for 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 solution cannot be used for sites.

- Email hosting: a solution dedicated to handling your email mailbox accounts. Some corporations provide web space hosting solutions for sites, but do not offer an email service. If you wish to create a mail address with your domain name but do not desire to own a website, then the email hosting service is what you require. You can create e-mail address accounts and administer them, but there will be no web service for the domains. The e-mail hosting solution 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 particular video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of utilizing this approach instead of uploading the video clip in a web hosting account is that the video clip brings about a certain amount of central processing unit load, so with several video files and several hundred site visitors, you may have difficulty with your site hosting reserves. Embedding the video clip will allow you to manage as many video files as you would like without bothering about system quotas.

- Web hosting: this is the solution that you require if you wish to keep a website. To a certain degree, it embodies all of the aforementioned hosting categories since, along with your web pages, you can also host images and files, you can set up databases and email accounts, upload video files, and so on. At iHostingNet.Com, for instance, you can have a glance at web hosting and dedicated web hosting packages that enable you to get all of the aforementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the form of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting plan, 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 e-mail/file/video/image hosting plans that are designed for specific content solely.