Classes of hosting solutions

A hosting solution suggests stockpiling and/or sharing given web content on a web hosting server run by a web hosting supplier. There are various categories of hosting services used for different aims, so let's examine them. In that way, you can choose what you want, on the basis of whether you wish to own a web site, email addresses, or to share files with friends and colleagues.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular hosts, which lets you share huge files. These could be disk images, films, audio files, archived files, and so on. This solution is also known as file storage, and its single function is to share files, since it does not support 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 read a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will not be able to load .html or .php website files in your browser. Free file hosting packages are often supported by displaying ads next to the download links, while a timer makes you wait for a specific span of time to view them. A single file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you purchase a paid file hosting account, there are no limitations as to how many files you can upload/download straight away, and also there is no restriction when it comes to the download speed or the file size.

At present, with the help of the cPanel hosting distributors, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more modern "cloud hosting". This is an entirely distorted explanation of the real denotation of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting system would split the load between different groups of hosting servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to attending various web hosting services (electronic mail, disk storage, statistics, DNS, databases, CP, etc.) So, the file hosting service is just a kind of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: resembling file hosting; specific providers offer a hosting solution for images solely. This hosting kind is good if you want to share a huge number of images with mates or colleagues since the service is typically free of cost. You will receive a random link for each image or album and you can subsequently share this link. As with the file hosting solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be used for sites.

- E-mail hosting: a service dedicated to taking care of your email address accounts. Some firms provide website hosting solutions for websites, but do not supply an email solution. If you desire to keep a mail address with your domain name but do not wish to have a site, then the email hosting solution is what you want. You can set up e-mail box accounts and administer them, but there will be no web solution for the domains. The email hosting solution involves incoming POP/IMAP and outgoing SMTP mail servers.

- Video hosting: this solution permits you to upload and share videos. You can either share a link to a specific video, or you can embed the video clip in your website that is hosted somewhere else. The benefit of using this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video file brings about a specific amount of CPU load, so with a bunch of videos and a few hundred web page visitors, you may have trouble with your webspace hosting reserves. Embedding the video will enable you to own as many video clips as you desire without bothering about system quotas.

- Web page hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to run a website. To a certain degree, it comprises all of the aforesaid hosting forms since, along with your websites, you can also host pics and files, you can run databases and electronic mail accounts, upload video files, etc. At Fully Web Hosting, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated server hosting services that enable you to get all of the abovementioned services in one location. There may be restrictions depending on the sort of hosting service that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Based on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse juxtaposed to the normal email/file/video/image hosting packages that are meant for specific web content only.