Varieties of hosting solutions

A hosting solution implies saving and/or sharing given content on a hosting server administered by a hosting company. There are different forms of hosting services utilized for different goals, so let's have a peek at these. Doing so, you can elect what you need, depending on whether you desire to run a website, e-mailbox accounts, or to share files with chums and partners.

- File hosting: a solution made available by particular web hosts, which enables you to share enormous files. These could be disk images, movies, audio files, archives, and so on. This service is also known as file storage, and its sole aim is to share files, since it does not offer web page uploading. As soon as the files are uploaded, you will either obtain a randomly generated download link for each of them, or you will be able to view a roll of all the files in a directory, but you will be unable to open .html or .php web page files in your browser. Free-of-cost file storage services often involve adverts by the download links, while a timer forces you to await a given interval of time to observe them. A given file can be downloaded with limited speed. If you own a paid file hosting plan, there are no limits as to how many files you can upload/download right away, and also there is no limitation as far as the download speed and the file size are concerned.

At present, with the assistance of the cPanel hosting corporations, "file hosting" is being renamed to the more trendy "cloud hosting". This is a completely awry explanation of the literal meaning of "cloud hosting". An actual cloud website hosting platform would divide the workload between autonomous sets of servers in a cluster, which are dedicated to serving different website hosting services (mail, data storage, stats, DNS, databases, hosting Control Panel, and so on.) So, the file hosting solution is just a type of a disk space hosting service, not a cloud hosting one. It's not even close.

- Image hosting: similar to file hosting; certain corporations offer a hosting service for images exclusively. This hosting type is appropriate if you want to share an enormous number of images with friends or associates since the service is commonly free. You will get a random link for each picture or album and you can then share this link. As with the file storage solution, .html and .php files are not compatible, so the solution cannot be utilized for web sites.

- E-mail hosting: a solution committed to tackling your email box accounts. Some corporations provide web hosting services for web sites, but do not provide an e-mail hosting solution. If you would like to set up a mail address with your domain name but do not want to have a website, then the e-mail hosting service is what you need. You can create mail accounts and administer them, but there will be no hosting solution for the domains. The email hosting service 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 given video file, or you can embed the video clip in your web page that is hosted somewhere else. The advantage of utilizing this method in lieu of uploading the video in a web hosting account is that the video generates a given amount of central processing unit load, so with a bunch of videos and several hundred web page visitors, you may have a hard time with your web site hosting resources. Embedding the video will allow you to own as many videos as you desire without hassling about system supplies.

- Website hosting: this is the service that you need if you desire to possess a web site. To a certain degree, it includes all of the abovementioned hosting brands since, along with your sites, you can also host pics and files, you can create databases and e-mails, upload videos, etc. At GO365 Ltd - Jargon-free IT, for example, you can examine web hosting and dedicated hosting plans that permit you to get all of the abovementioned solutions in one single place. There may be limits based on the type of hosting solution that you've selected - a free hosting account, a paid shared hosting account, a VPS or a dedicated server. Depending on that, your hosting plan may be better or worse compared with the regular e-mail/file/video/image hosting packages that are tailored for specific content solely.